Group of two monuments about 10 yards north-west of the south-west buttress of the transept of the Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Monument.
Group of two monuments about 10 yards north-west of the south-west buttress of the transept of the Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- drifting-column-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SO 386 304
- Coordinates
- 51.96874, -2.89388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of two monuments is located about 10 yards north-west of the south-west buttress of the transept of the Church of St Mary. The first is a chest tomb for James Matthews, who died in 1824. It is made of sandstone ashlar and features a moulded base, slightly hipped curved capping, fluted quarter corner columns, and an oval inscription panel. The second monument is a chest tomb for Mary Johnson, who died in 1817. This tomb is also made of sandstone ashlar and includes a moulded base, flat moulded capping, fluted side margins, and oval inscription panels set in a rectangular panel with fan motifs at the corners, flanked by an inner pair of raised fluted panels.
Local climate
Group of two monuments about 10 yards north-west of the south-west buttress of the transept of the Church of St Mary receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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