Sundial in St Boniface's Churchyard 10 Metres to South is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Monument.
Sundial in St Boniface's Churchyard 10 Metres to South
- WRENN ID
- sheer-slate-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SJ 569 580
- Coordinates
- 53.11804, -2.64518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sundial located in St Boniface's churchyard, 10 meters to the south, dates from 1740 and features a bronze plate. It is made of red sandstone and has a turned baluster-shaped pillar that sits on a two-stepped square base. The upper step of the base is cavetto moulded, and the pillar's base has a square plinth. The pillar has a cyma recta profile with a small bead in the neck. The top of the sundial projects and includes a calibrated bronze plate with a pointer, which is inscribed with the date as well as the names John Davies, Roger Perry, and S Young.
Local climate
Sundial in St Boniface's Churchyard 10 Metres to South receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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