Pair of Rawlings Family Memorials About 12 Yards South West of West Tower of St Marys Church is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1986. Tomb.
Pair of Rawlings Family Memorials About 12 Yards South West of West Tower of St Marys Church
- WRENN ID
- gentle-flagstone-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SP 311 273
- Coordinates
- 51.94369, -1.54837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This description covers a pair of memorials dedicated to the Rawlings family, located approximately 12 yards southwest of the west tower of St Mary's Church in Chipping Norton. These two chest tombs date from around 1800 and commemorate Robert Rawlings, with one tomb marking his death in 1801 (to the north) and the other in 1803 (to the south). The memorials are constructed of ashlar and feature a moulded plinth and cornices, panelled sides, and corner quarter balusters.
Local climate
Pair of Rawlings Family Memorials About 12 Yards South West of West Tower of St Marys Church receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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