Payne Monument About 15 Metres South of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. Chest tomb.
Payne Monument About 15 Metres South of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- leaning-marble-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- TM 076 717
- Coordinates
- 52.30495, 1.04435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Payne Monument is a chest tomb located about 15 meters south of the Church of St. Mary in Gislingham. It commemorates H. Payne, who died in 1811, and J. Payne, who died in 1819. The monument is made of ashlar stone and features a moulded base and capping topped with a ridged capstone. The long sides are simply panelled and include inscriptions framed by double pilasters. Originally, the tomb had a railed enclosure.
Local climate
Payne Monument About 15 Metres South of Church of St Mary 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Grainger/Payne Memorial Approximately 15 Metres North of Vestry of Church of All Saints
- 2 Payne Memorial Approximately 10 Metres South of Church of St Mary
- 3 Richard Payne Knight Monument About 10 Yards North East of North East Corner of the Church of St Mary
- 4 Powell Memorial About 2 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- 5 Four Monuments in Churchyard Circa 20 Metres North of the North East Corner of the Church of St Mary
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