Furnihough Memorial Approximately 20 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Chest tomb.
Furnihough Memorial Approximately 20 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- turning-porch-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SK 017 502
- Coordinates
- 53.04941, -1.9751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Furnihough memorial is a chest tomb located approximately 20 meters north of the tower of the Church of St Leonard in Ipstones. It commemorates Jonah Furnihough, who died in 1804. The tomb is made of stone and features incised sides. At the corners, it has free-standing waisted balusters that are gadrooned below the waist, which support a fluted frieze beneath a corniced top slab. This memorial is similar in style to the Scarrat memorial nearby.
Local climate
Furnihough Memorial Approximately 20 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Leonard 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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