Boucher Memorial Approximately 1 Metre North of North East Corner of Chancel Chapel and Pope Memorial Approximately 1 Metre North of North Aisle of Church of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. Tomb.
Boucher Memorial Approximately 1 Metre North of North East Corner of Chancel Chapel and Pope Memorial Approximately 1 Metre North of North Aisle of Church of St Stephen
- WRENN ID
- unlit-timber-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1989
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SP 283 021
- Coordinates
- 51.71746, -1.59097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boucher memorial and the Pope memorial are a pair of chest tombs located approximately 1 metre north of the northeast corner of the chancel chapel and the north aisle of the Church of St. Stephen in Clanfield. The Boucher memorial dates from around 1756 and is made of limestone. It has a rectangular shape with a moulded plinth, capping, and a stepped moulded top. The south side features a plain moulded inscription panel, which was illegible at the time of the last survey in July 1987, along with corner pilasters. The north side has an illegible inscription panel surrounded by carved floral motifs and the heads of two winged cherubs at the top, with linked oval-shaped decoration and rosettes at the joins to the pilasters. The inscription panels on the ends commemorate John, the son of Thomas Boucher, who died in 1756.
The Pope memorial, dating from around 1801, is also made of limestone and has a rectangular shape with a moulded plinth, capping, and a stepped chamfered top. It features slightly recessed oval inscription panels with floral emblems in the spandrels and fluted corner pilasters. The south side is blank, while the north side commemorates Ann Pope, who died in 1801, and was the daughter of Thomas and Susan Pope and the wife of John Clark.
Local climate
Boucher Memorial Approximately 1 Metre North of North East Corner of Chancel Chapel and Pope Memorial Approximately 1 Metre North of North Aisle of Church of St Stephen receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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