Bennion/Lewis Memorial Abutting East End of Vestry of Church of St Oswald is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. Chest tomb.
Bennion/Lewis Memorial Abutting East End of Vestry of Church of St Oswald
- WRENN ID
- peeling-joist-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SJ 288 293
- Coordinates
- 52.85697, -3.05759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bennion/Lewis memorial is a chest tomb located at the east end of the vestry of the Church of St. Oswald, dating from around 1777. It is made of sandstone, which was formerly painted. The tomb has a rectangular shape, featuring a moulded plinth and capping with square corner balusters. The inscription on the top ledger commemorates John Lewis, who died in 1777, while an inscription on the east side honors Thomas Bennion, who died in 1834.
Local climate
Bennion/Lewis Memorial Abutting East End of Vestry of Church of St Oswald receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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