Birch and Billingford Memorials About 5 to 10 Metres North West of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. Memorial.
Birch and Billingford Memorials About 5 to 10 Metres North West of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- over-chancel-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- TM 056 782
- Coordinates
- 52.36342, 1.01939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch and Billingford Memorials are a pair of identical chest tombs located about 5 to 10 metres northwest of the Church of St. Mary. The tomb furthest from the church is dedicated to J. Birch, who died in 1793, while the one closer to the church is also from the late 18th century but reuses a cap stone belonging to R. Billingford, who died in 1739. Both tombs are made of ashlar and feature moulded bases and cappings. The cap stones are inscribed, with the earlier one having a cyma moulded design. Each tomb has sides measuring 2 by 1, with raised fielded panels that have quadrant indented corners, and they are adorned with fluted pilasters.
Local climate
Birch and Billingford Memorials About 5 to 10 Metres North West of Church of St Mary 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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