Fry Headstone Approximately 55 Metres West of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1971. Headstone.
Fry Headstone Approximately 55 Metres West of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- lesser-kitchen-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stafford MP: Leigh Ingham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1971
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SJ 920 231
- Coordinates
- 52.80601, -2.11943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fry Headstone, located approximately 55 metres west of the Church of St Mary, is a headstone dedicated to Bernard Fry, a surgeon who died in 1827. The headstone is made of ashlar stone and features a shaped top. The inscription, primarily in verse, commemorates Fry's efforts to assist the poor of Stafford during a typhus outbreak, as well as his own death from the disease.
Local climate
Fry Headstone Approximately 55 Metres West of Church of St Mary receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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