Burial Enclosure Approximately 10 Metres to North East of Wentworth Old Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1985. Burial enclosure.
Burial Enclosure Approximately 10 Metres to North East of Wentworth Old Church
- WRENN ID
- lunar-wicket-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP: John Healey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1985
- Type
- Burial enclosure
- OS grid reference
- SK 383 983
- Coordinates
- 53.48005, -1.42297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The burial enclosure, built in 1824, is located approximately 10 metres to the north-east of Wentworth Old Church. It was erected by William Wentworth Fitzwilliam and his son Charles William. The structure features an ashlar plinth and a vault cover, with a cast-iron railed enclosure that is rectangular in shape. A large slab rises to a chamfered two-stone vault cover. The railings are supported by corner and intermediate piers, each with a square section and lozenge-shaped panels in the openwork shaft. The moulded caps are mostly damaged or have been replaced with concrete facsimiles. Fleur-de-lys finials adorn both the lower and upper rails. An inscription on the upper rail reads:
'THIS PLACE OF BURIAL WAS / CONSTRUCTED A.D. MDCCCXXIV.BY / WILLIAM EARL FITZWILLIAM / AND CHARLES WILLIAM / VISCOUNT MILTON, FOR THE / WENTWORTH BRANCH OF THEIR / DESCENDANTS, IN THE HOPE THAT / THEY MAY PASS THROUGH / THINGS TEMPORAL, THAT THEY / LOSE NOT THE THINGS ETERNAL'.
The subterranean vault has not been inspected, and there is private access via an ashlar-lined tunnel from Wentworth Old Church.
Local climate
Burial Enclosure Approximately 10 Metres to North East of Wentworth Old Church receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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