Sundial in Graveyard is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Sundial.
Sundial in Graveyard
- WRENN ID
- seventh-spindle-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Sundial
- Address
- Sundial in Graveyard, Church Lane, Ellel
- OS grid reference
- SD 486 561
- Coordinates
- 53.99895, -2.78492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sundial in the graveyard is possibly from around 1800 and features a shaft of 17th century design. It is made of sandstone and has a base consisting of three steps, which is square in shape. The shaft also has a square plan with chamfered sides. The brass plate on the sundial includes a broken gnomon. This graveyard was the location of an earlier church built around 1800, which was replaced in 1907 and subsequently demolished in 1936.
Local climate
Sundial in Graveyard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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