Blakemore Monument Approximately 15 Metres South-West of Church of St Swithin is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. Monument.
Blakemore Monument Approximately 15 Metres South-West of Church of St Swithin
- WRENN ID
- bitter-panel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SO 529 163
- Coordinates
- 51.84343, -2.68445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blakemore Monument is a pedestal monument located approximately 15 meters south-west of the Church of St Swithin, dating from around 1855. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a square-set, moulded plinth on a stepped base, designed in a Gothic style. The monument has a stepped moulded capping with a short pinnacle, and below the inscription panels, there is a band of quatrefoils. The panels are framed by cusped arches and flanked by miniature stepped buttress motifs on each side. The pinnacle is decorated with stiff-leaf embellishments and has implied tracery below, consisting of two cusped lights with a rounded shape. This monument commemorates Richard Blakemore Esq of The Leys in this parish, who died in 1855, along with other members of the Blakemore family.
Local climate
Blakemore Monument Approximately 15 Metres South-West of Church of St Swithin 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 greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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