Locker Memorial Approximately 20 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Werburgh is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Tomb.
Locker Memorial Approximately 20 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Werburgh
- WRENN ID
- eternal-bonework-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SK 013 468
- Coordinates
- 53.01926, -1.98158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Locker Memorial is a chest tomb located approximately 20 meters south of the nave of the Church of St Werburgh. It commemorates Joseph Locker, who died in 1838. The tomb features stone fluted consoles at the corners and has incised inset side panels decorated with fans at the angles. The top slab is inscribed.
Local climate
Locker Memorial Approximately 20 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Werburgh receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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