Two Hardwick Memorials Approximately 5 Metres South of Nave of Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1987. A C19 Memorial.
Two Hardwick Memorials Approximately 5 Metres South of Nave of Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- gentle-hearth-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1987
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SO 650 272
- Coordinates
- 51.9422, -2.51035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two Hardwick memorials located approximately 5 meters south of the nave of the Church of St John the Baptist. The first is a chest tomb from 1806, made of sandstone ashlar with a rectangular plan. It features balusters on either side of a fielded inscription panel, and has an hourglass encircled by a serpent and skull on the short sides. The second memorial is a pedestal tomb from 1842, also constructed of sandstone ashlar. It has a moulded plinth and capping with an urn finial, a frieze below the capping adorned with florettes, and a band of fluting surrounding the inscription panel, which has a shaped inset and florettes in the spandrels.
Local climate
Two Hardwick Memorials Approximately 5 Metres South of Nave of Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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