Simpson Tomb St Marys Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Tomb. 1 related planning application.
Simpson Tomb St Marys Church
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-cobalt-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Simpson Tomb St Marys Church, Rostherne Lane, Millington and Rostherne
- OS grid reference
- SJ 742 836
- Coordinates
- 53.349, -2.38811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Simpson Tomb at St Mary's Church is a tomb built around 1861. It is made of ashlar sandstone and designed in the shape of a small spire supported by four columns with decorative capitals at the corners of a sloping gabled casket. The tomb stands on a low chamfered ashlar plinth, which is surrounded by low ornamental railings. Behind the columns, four steep gables rise, leading up to the spire, which currently lacks a finial. The sides of the casket feature recessed cusped rectangular panels, one of which has the inscription: 'In memory of Mary, beloved wife of Joseph Simpson Esq. Of Didsbury, near Manchester who died 20th May 1861 aged 43 years.'
Local climate
Simpson Tomb St Marys Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Unidentified Monument,About 1.5m South-West of Smyth Monument in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin
- 2 Chest Tomb About 7 Yards East of South Porch of St Marys Church
- 3 Table tomb approximately 2 metres west of enclosed graves in churchyard of St Mary's Church
- 4 Fitch Memorial
- 5 Gorser Tomb, approximately 18 metres to the south of the chancel of Church of St. Mary
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