Hitchcock Memorial Approximately 2 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. Tomb.
Hitchcock Memorial Approximately 2 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- sheer-beam-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SP 467 316
- Coordinates
- 51.98173, -1.32092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hitchcock Memorial is a chest tomb located approximately 2 meters south of the tower of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Deddington. It was created in the early 19th century by Cakebread of Bloxham and is made of limestone or possibly Coade stone. The tomb is designed in a Neo-classical style and features an elaborate rectangular shape, standing on a two-step plinth. Its panelled sides are flanked by consoles enriched with acanthus leaves, and it has a high cover surrounded by antifixae that are carved with anthemion ornament. Atop the cover stands a fluted and draped urn, flanked by flat scrolls. While the earlier inscriptions on the tomb are mostly illegible, a later inscription commemorates Sir William Hitchcock.
Local climate
Hitchcock Memorial Approximately 2 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Peter and St Paul 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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