Monument Approximately 1 Metre East of Chancel of Church of Saint Mary Magdalen is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1985. A C18 Monument.
Monument Approximately 1 Metre East of Chancel of Church of Saint Mary Magdalen
- WRENN ID
- scarred-floor-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 028 328
- Coordinates
- 51.98417, -0.5041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone commemorating Thomas Breade, who died in 1716. It is made of limestone and stands approximately 0.75 metres high. The east side features an inscribed tablet set within a deep moulded frame, flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters, and topped with a deeply carved winged putto head beneath a moulded segmental head. The west side is plain and bears the following inscription: "The world is nothing, Heaven all I have lost nothing by my fall. Go tell my Friends when they do weep I am not dead but gone to sleep."
Local climate
Monument Approximately 1 Metre East of Chancel of Church of Saint Mary Magdalen sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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