Sundial South East of Porch, St Mary's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Sundial.
Sundial South East of Porch, St Mary's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- quiet-newel-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Sundial
- Address
- Sundial South East of Porch, St Mary's Churchyard, Liverpool Road, Great Sankey
- OS grid reference
- SJ 568 884
- Coordinates
- 53.39106, -2.64962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sundial located south-east of the porch in St Mary's Churchyard is a Grade II listed structure dating from 1721. It features a copper dial and gnomon mounted on a circular cement baluster, which is likely from the 19th century. The baluster is set on a hexagonal stone memorial base that marks the resting place of 59 members of the Birchall Broadhurst, Domville, Deakin, Forster, Garnett, Gorse, Goulden, Green, Greenhalgh, Haddock, Hewitt, Holden, Humphreys, Isherwood, Lamb, Lee, Leigh, Seed, and Yould families, who passed away between 1741 and 1903. The dial bears the inscription "Ab hoc momento pendet AETERNITAS P.Simpson (?) 1721."
Local climate
Sundial South East of Porch, St Mary's Churchyard 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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