Fitch Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1985. Tomb.
Fitch Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gilded-jade-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Constituency
- Stafford MP: Leigh Ingham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Fitch Memorial, Whitmore
- OS grid reference
- SJ 810 410
- Coordinates
- 52.96642, -2.28399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fitch Memorial is a chest tomb located approximately 12 meters northwest of the Church of St Mary and All Saints in Whitmore. It dates from the mid-19th century and is constructed from sandstone ashlar. The tomb has a rectangular plan and features a slightly projecting moulded top ledger with fluted corner pilasters. The top ledger commemorates Susanna Fitch, who died in 1835. The moulded inscription panels on the long sides are currently indecipherable due to the accumulation of soil around the tomb, noted during a re-survey in 1984.
Local climate
Fitch Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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