Pair of Grave Stones to the Bower Family Situated Approximately 10 Metres to South of Nave of Church of St Alban is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1987. Grave stones.
Pair of Grave Stones to the Bower Family Situated Approximately 10 Metres to South of Nave of Church of St Alban
- WRENN ID
- carved-wall-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rother Valley MP: Jake Richards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1987
- Type
- Grave stones
- OS grid reference
- SK 478 916
- Coordinates
- 53.41955, -1.28163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of grave stones for the Bower family, located approximately 10 metres south of the nave of the Church of St. Alban. They date from around 1714 and are made of red sandstone. The main stone features a raised rectangular slab with an additional slab at its foot. It has fine inscriptions commemorating Sarah, the daughter of John Bower, who died in 1714 at the age of 18; Benjamin, the son, who died in 1718 at the age of 16; and Elizabeth, the wife, who died in 1718 at the age of 60. These inscriptions are set beneath a rope-moulded arch adorned with florets and scale ornament in the spandrels, while the side panels display stylised sinuous foliage. At the foot of the stones is a plain slab dedicated to John Bower, who passed away in 1737 at the age of 65. This pair of grave stones is a good example of its kind.
Local climate
Pair of Grave Stones to the Bower Family Situated Approximately 10 Metres to South of Nave of Church of St Alban receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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