Crick Memorial Approximately 8 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. Monument.
Crick Memorial Approximately 8 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- far-arch-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SP 471 353
- Coordinates
- 52.01487, -1.31484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crick Memorial, located approximately 8 meters east of the chancel of the Church of St. Mary, is a headstone dating from around 1696. It is made of marlstone and features an inscription that is flanked by barleytwist pilasters with Ionic capitals. These pilasters support an entablature and a broken segmental pediment. The inscription commemorates John and Heastaer Crick, who died in 1696 and 1700, respectively.
Local climate
Crick Memorial Approximately 8 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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