Matthews Memorial Fixed to East Wall of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Memorial.

Matthews Memorial Fixed to East Wall of Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
ruined-spandrel-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1987
Type
Memorial
Address
Matthews Memorial Fixed to East Wall of Church of St Michael, Llanyblodwel
OS grid reference
SJ 239 228
Coordinates
52.79828, -3.12936
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Matthews memorial is fixed to the east wall of the Church of St. Michael in Llanyblodwel. It dates from around 1715 and is made of limestone. The memorial features a plain tablet with a moulded plinth and pilastered corner piers. It has gadrooned capping and pyramidal finials on either side of a cavetto-moulded finial, which is topped with an armorial device. The moulded inscription panel commemorates Edward Matthews, who died in 1715.

Local climate

Matthews Memorial Fixed to East Wall of Church of St Michael receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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