Roadside and Pathside Walls to Churchyard, Church of St Barnabas, Including North and West Gateways and Squeeze to North West Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Boundary walls.
Roadside and Pathside Walls to Churchyard, Church of St Barnabas, Including North and West Gateways and Squeeze to North West Corner
- WRENN ID
- slow-solder-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Boundary walls
- Address
- Roadside and Pathside Walls to Churchyard, Church of St Barnabas, Including North and West Gateways and Squeeze to North West Corner, High Street, Queen Camel
- OS grid reference
- ST 597 249
- Coordinates
- 51.02287, -2.57556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The roadside and pathside walls surrounding the churchyard of the Church of St Barnabas date mostly from the 19th century. They are constructed from local grey lias and Ham stone, with cast iron gates. The walls enclose the west, north, and east sides of the churchyard, featuring gateways in the west and north walls, as well as a squeeze at the north-west corner of the church path.
The west gateway is the most significant, featuring octagonal Ham stone piers with moulded stone bases, ashlar shafts, and castellated pointed tops. The gates have rails topped with knobs, quatrefoil ornamentation on the middle rails, and trefoil cusping beneath the top rail. The flanking west wall is made of random coursed lias, with stones set vertically on top, standing approximately 1.5 meters high.
At the north-west corner, the return wall is of similar height, leading to the end of the church path, which is an attractive thoroughfare paved with stone setts. This section includes two lias stone slabs that serve as a squeeze (roadside baffles). The north wall averages 1 meter in height and features shaped Ham stone caps, with a sweep at the north-west corner and the north gateway, which is simpler, with square lias piers and Ham stone coved and hipped caps. The gates here are similar to those of the western gate. The wall continues along the east boundary, increasing in height towards the south end. Overall, these walls and gateways play an important role in the setting of the Church of St Barnabas and contribute significantly to the streetscape of the village, located at a prominent corner.
Local climate
Roadside and Pathside Walls to Churchyard, Church of St Barnabas, Including North and West Gateways and Squeeze to North West Corner receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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