Stackhouse Acton Memorial at Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 2004. Tomb, memorial.
Stackhouse Acton Memorial at Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- worn-brick-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 2004
- Type
- Tomb, memorial
- Address
- Stackhouse Acton Memorial at Church of St Margaret, Acton Scott
- OS grid reference
- SO 453 894
- Coordinates
- 52.50015, -2.80629
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stackhouse Acton Memorial is located at the Church of St Margaret in Acton Scott. This memorial consists of a group of two raised gabled tombs set within a railed enclosure. The tombs are made of ashlar, featuring solid slabs with sloping sides, gabled ends, and raised ridge rolls. One side of the tomb is inscribed. The railings surrounding the tombs are made of cast iron, with double moulded upper rails and spear-head finials on square plan standards, along with octagonal main standards topped with pineapple finials.
The northern tomb commemorates Frances Stackhouse Acton, who died in 1791, while the southern tomb is dedicated to Thomas Pendarves Stackhouse Acton, who died in 1835. The Acton family were lords of the manor, and in 1773, Susanna, the daughter of Sir Edward Acton, married John Stackhouse, a botanist, which brought the Stackhouse name into the family. John Stackhouse, who died in 1819, was the Lord of Acton Scott and left £500 for a family pew, which was built as a north transept chapel in 1820. After his widow's death, the estate was inherited by their younger son, Thomas Pendarves Stackhouse, who also took on the name Acton and died in 1835.
The north transept chapel, designed in Gothick style, contains memorials to the Stackhouse Acton family and resembles the Acton family chapel at Acton Round, which dates from around 1760 and was likely designed by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard. This enclosure was constructed to contain family churchyard monuments and forms a group with the Church of St Margaret, Acton Scott.
Local climate
Stackhouse Acton Memorial at Church of St Margaret receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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