Woodruff Memorial Approximately 2 Metres East of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1986. Tomb.
Woodruff Memorial Approximately 2 Metres East of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- brooding-tracery-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SK 028 378
- Coordinates
- 52.93834, -1.95945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woodruff Memorial is a pedestal tomb located approximately 2 meters east of the Church of St. Mary. It dates from the early 19th century and commemorates Thomas Woodruff, who died in 1832. The tomb is made of stone and is set on a wide, roll-lipped plinth. It features a moulded cornice and a plain surbase, with inscribed sides resembling a Roman tablet.
Local climate
Woodruff Memorial Approximately 2 Metres East of Church of St Mary receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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