Guide Post 36 metres south east of Church lych gate is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Guide post.
Guide Post 36 metres south east of Church lych gate
- WRENN ID
- hushed-cellar-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Guide post
- OS grid reference
- SJ 919 835
- Coordinates
- 53.34896, -2.12192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guide Post, located 36 metres southeast of the Church lych gate in Poynton-with-Worth, is a lamp standard, guide post, and fountain combined, dated 1897. It features a cast-iron chamfered square base on a moulded plinth, which has moulded panels surrounding lion's mask fountains on three sides and a plaque on the fourth side. The fountains empty into square and semi-circular basins, designed for humans, horses, and dogs respectively. Above the base, a moulded cornice supports four horizontal consoles and a fluted column adorned with clasping acanthus leaves at the bottom. The column has four directional plates and originally supported four gas lamps, three of which still remain, mounted on curving brackets with some scroll work. This piece was made by Wilson and Co. in Manchester for £212. The plaque commemorates its erection in celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee by the residents of Poynton. The guide post was moved to its current location around 2011.
Local climate
Guide Post 36 metres south east of Church lych gate sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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