Walls and Gate to Parish Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Walls and gate.
Walls and Gate to Parish Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- graven-pavement-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Walls and gate
- Address
- Walls and Gate to Parish Church of St Michael, St Michael's Road, Minehead
- OS grid reference
- SS 966 468
- Coordinates
- 51.21125, -3.48035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls and gate to the Parish Church of St Michael date from the 19th century. They consist of rubblestone walls and a timber lychgate with a tiled roof. The walls on the south and east sides are substantial retaining walls; the southern wall is approximately 3 meters high and 100 meters long, and it flanks the steps leading to the west end of the church. At the south corner of the east wall, there is a late 19th-century plain-tiled lychgate supported by red sandstone piers. The eastern wall extends about 50 meters and increases in height in five steps from approximately 2 meters to 3 meters. Ivy-covered rubblestone walls enclose the north and west sides of the churchyard.
Local climate
Walls and Gate to Parish Church of St Michael sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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