Bentley Memorial Approximately 1 Metre North East of North Aisle of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Bentley Memorial Approximately 1 Metre North East of North Aisle of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- silver-thatch-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SJ 341 252
- Coordinates
- 52.82068, -2.9791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bentley memorial is a chest tomb located approximately 1 metre north-east of the north aisle of the Church of St. Michael in West Felton. It dates from around 1816 and is made of limestone. The tomb is rectangular with inwardly sloping short sides and features a moulded plinth and capping that rests on ball supports. The chamfered top ledger is adorned with an urn that has leaf decoration on the bowl and rosette emblems on the rim, topped by a flaming torch finial. The long sides of the tomb display a fishscale pattern. On the north side, there is a raised oval inscription panel commemorating Peter Bentley, who died in 1816, while the south side features a panel for his wife, Frances, who died in 1800.
Local climate
Bentley Memorial Approximately 1 Metre North East of North Aisle of Church of St Michael receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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