Effigy About 20 Yards South of the South East Corner of the Chancel of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1987. Effigy.
Effigy About 20 Yards South of the South East Corner of the Chancel of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- tenth-banister-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1987
- Type
- Effigy
- OS grid reference
- SO 375 448
- Coordinates
- 52.09816, -2.9128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a recumbent effigy located about 20 yards south of the south-east corner of the chancel of the Church of St Mary in Staunton-on-Wye. It dates from the early 14th century and is made of sandstone. The effigy depicts a woman in a long gown holding a heart, and it features an ogee foiled canopy above her head. The head was severed from the body at the time of the re-survey in September 1986.
Local climate
Effigy About 20 Yards South of the South East Corner of the Chancel of Church of St Mary receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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