Tomb of Michael Wood Set in An Enclosure on Other Side of Wall to Bus Stop in Graveyard of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Tomb.
Tomb of Michael Wood Set in An Enclosure on Other Side of Wall to Bus Stop in Graveyard of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- narrow-granite-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds South West and Morley MP: Mark Sewards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Michael Wood Set in An Enclosure on Other Side of Wall to Bus Stop in Graveyard of Church of St Mary, Dewsbury Road, Morley
- OS grid reference
- SE 271 250
- Coordinates
- 53.72095, -1.58988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb of Michael Wood, dating from 1801, is a chest tomb located in an enclosure on the other side of the wall from the bus stop in the graveyard of the Church of St. Mary in Woodkirk, Morley. It is constructed of ashlar and features a raised stone slab on a panelled base, with fluted pilasters at the corners and in the centre. The stone is finely carved, displaying trumpeting angels set in the spandrels of the arched top. The inscription reads: "Sacred to the MEMORY of MICHAEL WOOD Esqr. of Tingley House who (meeting with an Accident here when a Young Man, which nearly proved fatal to him) requested to be interred upon the spot. He died Dec 31st 1801 in the 81st Year of his Age." The carving reflects the local style typical of the 1730s.
Local climate
Tomb of Michael Wood Set in An Enclosure on Other Side of Wall to Bus Stop in Graveyard of Church of St Mary receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% 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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