Piercy Memorial Immediately East of Chancel of Hurch of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. A Georgian Chest tomb.
Piercy Memorial Immediately East of Chancel of Hurch of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- final-chamber-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1989
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Piercy Memorial Immediately East of Chancel of Hurch of St John the Baptist, Church Street, Fifield
- OS grid reference
- SP 239 187
- Coordinates
- 51.86688, -1.65335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Peircy Memorial is a chest tomb located immediately east of the chancel of the Church of St. John the Baptist, dating from around 1790. It is made of limestone ashlar and features a rectangular shape with a plain projecting capping. The east end has a moulded inscription panel that commemorates John Peircy, who died in 1790.
Local climate
Piercy Memorial Immediately East of Chancel of Hurch of St John the Baptist receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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