Travellers' Rest stone at Great Sankey is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 2009. Stone seat.
Travellers' Rest stone at Great Sankey
- WRENN ID
- woven-rubble-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 2009
- Type
- Stone seat
- Address
- Travellers' Rest stone at Great Sankey, 2 Clarence Avenue, WA5 3LZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 559 886
- Coordinates
- 53.39282, -2.66416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Travellers' Rest is a stone seat for travelling migrants, dating from around 1860, designed by James Kendrick. It is made of red sandstone and is currently partially buried in a private garden to the north of the road.
The stone measures 63 inches in length, 22 inches in depth, and 16 inches in height. It features a slightly domed center to help shed water, spanning a width of 39 inches. At each end, the stone steps down by 6 inches to a lower seat that is 12 inches wide and 10 inches high.
On the east face of the upper step, the stone is inscribed with the words "TRAVELLERS’ REST." The inscription includes gothic lettering that reads "COME UNTO ME SAITH THE SAVIOUR," along with a probable date, although this is currently obscured by the ground level, which is even with the top of the lower steps as of 2022.
Local climate
Travellers' Rest stone at Great Sankey 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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