Green Bedford and 2 Dunhill Monuments in Row 3 1/2 to 10 1/2 Metres South of South East Corner of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1988. Monuments.
Green Bedford and 2 Dunhill Monuments in Row 3 1/2 to 10 1/2 Metres South of South East Corner of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- second-quartz-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1988
- Type
- Monuments
- OS grid reference
- SE 387 125
- Coordinates
- 53.60841, -1.41643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of four monumental slabs is located in an unevenly spaced row, positioned 3½ to 10½ metres south of the southeast corner of the Church of St. Peter. These monuments commemorate Jonathan Green, who died in 1722; Robert Bedford, who died in 1744; Thomas Dunhill, who died in 1747; and another Thomas Dunhill, who died in 1770.
The monument for Jonathan Green features a continuous border of repeated leaf patterns, scrolls in the corners, a raised decorated initial letter "H", and an elegantly seriffed inscription. It also includes an addition for Jno. Green, who died in 1768. Robert Bedford's monument is undecorated and has a plainly worded inscription in seriffed lettering, with additions for his wife Mary, who died in 1761, and his daughter Sarah, who died in 1764 at the age of 3 months.
The third monument, for Thomas Dunhill, has a shouldered fielded panel topped with an elaborately carved head that includes skull and crossbones, an hourglass, a hammer, faces, and flowers. The panel is stylishly lettered and has an addition for his wife Sarah, who died in 1772, although the head is cracked. The fourth monument features a moulded shouldered arched head with radiant flowers in the spandrels and an elegant inscription, along with additions for his daughter Ann, who died in 1773, and his son Thomas, who died in 1798.
Local climate
Green Bedford and 2 Dunhill Monuments in Row 3 1/2 to 10 1/2 Metres South of South East Corner of Church of St Peter receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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