Key Memorial Approximately 1.5 Metres to South of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1986. Monument.
Key Memorial Approximately 1.5 Metres to South of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- twisted-facade-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SJ 520 234
- Coordinates
- 52.80675, -2.71282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Key memorial is a chest tomb located approximately 1.5 metres south of the Church of All Saints in Grinshill. It dates from 1699 and is made of yellow and grey Grinshill sandstone ashlar. The tomb has a rectangular shape with a large pulvinated frieze and a deep moulded cornice. The top slab is inscribed with the words: "Here lyeth the Body / Of William Key Of / Grinshill Who Was / Buryed The 10th Of / April Anno Dom / 1699 BEING AGED 76".
Local climate
Key Memorial Approximately 1.5 Metres to South of Church of All Saints receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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