Bunion Memorial Approximately 11 Metres South of Chancel of Church St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Monument.
Bunion Memorial Approximately 11 Metres South of Chancel of Church St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-grate-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SJ 934 620
- Coordinates
- 53.15555, -2.09955
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bunion Memorial is a chest tomb located approximately 11 meters south of the chancel of the Church of St. Lawrence. It commemorates Samuel Bunion, who died in 1754. The tomb is made of sandstone ashlar and features low sides set on a moulded plinth. It has inset pilasters at the corners, with low-relief paired paterae on both faces, and banded side panels that are quadranted at the angles. The surbase has breaks at the center and angles, topped with a moulded slab.
Local climate
Bunion Memorial Approximately 11 Metres South of Chancel of Church St Lawrence sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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