Surrounding walls, including gateway, steps and postbox at at Catholic Church of St Alban is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 June 2023. Walls.
Surrounding walls, including gateway, steps and postbox at at Catholic Church of St Alban
- WRENN ID
- narrow-banister-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 June 2023
- Type
- Walls
- Address
- Surrounding walls, including gateway, steps and postbox at at Catholic Church of St Alban, Wainfelin, Pontypool, Pontymoile
- OS grid reference
- SO 278 012
- Coordinates
- 51.70516, -3.04538
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The surrounding walls, including the gateway, steps, and postbox at the Catholic Church of St Alban, are constructed from squared limestone rubble and serve as the church boundary along Conway Road and as retaining walls along George Street. The walls extend from the southwest in front of the presbytery, featuring a steep gabled pediment above a round-headed archway that mirrors the entrance of the presbytery. The walls have coping and ball finials on the kneelers and apex. In front of the church's apse, the wall is reduced to a batter, with a rounded corner at George Street. This section, along with the part facing George Street, includes coping and metal railings. A corner section displays a crucifix along with figures of Our Lady and St John. The section along George Street has a pierced area in front of the south door of the church, with ramped stairs on both the left and right sides, dressed stone piers, and coping. There is a blocked round-headed doorway to the right, and a wall-mounted postbox from the reign of Edward VII is incorporated into the curved corner along George Street.
Local climate
Surrounding walls, including gateway, steps and postbox at at Catholic Church of St Alban receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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