Wright Family Vault 100 Metres South West of Priory Church is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Family vault.
Wright Family Vault 100 Metres South West of Priory Church
- WRENN ID
- haunted-chancel-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham South MP: Lilian Greenwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Family vault
- OS grid reference
- SK 552 387
- Coordinates
- 52.94318, -1.17963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wright family vault, located 100 metres south-west of Priory Church, dates back to 1828 and is associated with various members of the Wright family, who were bankers at Lenton Hall. The vault features a rectangular ashlar slab with a sloped top and an inscribed slate tablet on the north side. Surrounding the vault is a cast-iron spearhead railing with posts topped by urn finials, along with cast-iron plaques that are also dated 1828.
Local climate
Wright Family Vault 100 Metres South West of Priory Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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