Mary Field Monument in the Old Churchyard 35 Metres South from Church Porch is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Mary Field Monument in the Old Churchyard 35 Metres South from Church Porch
- WRENN ID
- unlit-buttress-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 412 157
- Coordinates
- 51.82263, 0.04868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mary Field Monument is located in the old churchyard, 35 metres south of the church porch. This memorial, dating from around 1792, is made of limestone and features a tall slab with a curved, moulded top. The slab is adorned with palmette urns carved in low relief on either side. It has a well-cut inscription that reads: "To the Memory of Mrs Mary Field who departed this Life July 31st 1792. Aged 79 Years." Below the inscription are the lines:
"On the green hill top Hard by the House of Prayer a modest roof And not distinguished from its neighbour town Save by a slender-tapering length of spire The Grandame sleeps CHARLES LAMB."
Mary Field was the grandmother of Charles Lamb and the subject of his poem "The Grandame." She served as the housekeeper at Blakesware, which is located to the northwest of Widford. The monument is part of the churchyard group.
Local climate
Mary Field Monument in the Old Churchyard 35 Metres South from Church Porch sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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