Leek Memorial Adjacent to South Side of Chancel of Church of St Edward is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Memorial.
Leek Memorial Adjacent to South Side of Chancel of Church of St Edward
- WRENN ID
- fossil-niche-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SJ 971 524
- Coordinates
- 53.06894, -2.04471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Leek Memorial is an obelisk located adjacent to the south side of the chancel of the Church of St Edward in Cheddleton. It commemorates Ralph Leek, who died in 1795, and is signed at the base by G. Hunt of Hanley. The memorial is made of stone and features a heavy plinth with an inscribed die that tapers into a chamfer at the upper edges. The top of the obelisk is finished with blind trefoil-headed lucarnes on its faces. G. Hunt was known for creating many memorials in the area.
Local climate
Leek Memorial Adjacent to South Side of Chancel of Church of St Edward receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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