Cureton Memorial Approximately 1.5 Metres North of Vestry of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. Tomb memorial.
Cureton Memorial Approximately 1.5 Metres North of Vestry of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- grey-pinnacle-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1988
- Type
- Tomb memorial
- OS grid reference
- SJ 381 308
- Coordinates
- 52.87142, -2.92061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cureton Memorial is a pedestal tomb located approximately 1.5 meters north of the vestry of the Church of St. Mary in Hordley. It dates from around 1819 and is made of sandstone. The tomb has a square section with a moulded plinth and capping, topped by a scalloped urn finial adorned with festooned garlands. It features fluted corner piers with fluted decoration at the top and rosettes at the corners. There are oval inscription panels with carved floral decoration in the spandrels; the south panel commemorates Margaret Cureton, who died in 1819, while the west panel honors her husband, William, who died in 1833. Additional inscriptions for various members of the Cureton family are found on the other sides. The memorial formerly stood within a railed enclosure, of which the moulded stone plinth still remains.
Local climate
Cureton Memorial Approximately 1.5 Metres North of Vestry of Church of St Mary 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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