Church of St Leonard, Ashurst Memorial Against Vestry is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Chest tomb.
Church of St Leonard, Ashurst Memorial Against Vestry
- WRENN ID
- broken-gable-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Address
- Church of St Leonard, Ashurst Memorial Against Vestry, Waterstock
- OS grid reference
- SP 635 055
- Coordinates
- 51.7454, -1.08072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Leonard features a chest tomb from the late 18th century, made of limestone. This rectangular chest has a moulded plinth and cover, with corner balusters and panelled sides. While the inscriptions on the main panels are now illegible, the end panel includes a commemorative inscription for an Ashhurst who died in 1817. The Ashhurst family resided at Waterstock House.
Local climate
Church of St Leonard, Ashurst Memorial Against Vestry sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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