John Leech Grave Headstone Adjacent to Porch of St Michael and All Angels' Church is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1987. Grave headstone.
John Leech Grave Headstone Adjacent to Porch of St Michael and All Angels' Church
- WRENN ID
- brooding-zinc-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1987
- Type
- Grave headstone
- OS grid reference
- SJ 941 990
- Coordinates
- 53.48781, -2.08992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The John Leech grave headstone, located adjacent to the porch of St. Michael and All Angels' Church, dates back to 1689. It is made of stone and features an inscription that reads: "Here Resteth the Body of John Leech of Hurst Buried the 16 day of October 1689 aged 92 years whereby Anne his wife he had issue 12 children and in his life time was Father to 12, Grandfather to 75, Great Grandfather to 92, Great Great Grandfather to 2, in all 181." The headstone also displays an appropriate coat of arms.
Local climate
John Leech Grave Headstone Adjacent to Porch of St Michael and All Angels' Church 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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