Parker Tomb 5 Metres South East of Porch of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Tomb.
Parker Tomb 5 Metres South East of Porch of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SD 823 393
- Coordinates
- 53.85022, -2.27043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parker tomb, located 5 meters southeast of the porch of the Church of St Mary, is a table tomb dating from 1691. It features a raised stone slab supported by square legs with caps. The slab is moulded in the shape of an arch, adorned with angels in the spandrels. An inscription on the tomb commemorates the death of Henry Parker of Wheatley and his grandson, also named Henry Parker, who died in 1760.
Local climate
Parker Tomb 5 Metres South East of Porch of Church of St Mary sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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