Monument to Lady Perkins, 4 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Spelthorne local planning authority area, England. A C18 Monument.
Monument to Lady Perkins, 4 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- empty-lintel-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Spelthorne
- Constituency
- Spelthorne MP: Lincoln Jopp (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 106 685
- Coordinates
- 51.40499, -0.4111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Lady Perkins is a chest tomb located 4 metres north of the tower of the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Sunbury-on-Thames. It dates from the early 18th century, around 1730, and is designed in the Baroque style. The tomb is made of stone and sits on a plinth with a moulded pedestal, featuring fielded panels on its sides. The corners are recessed and adorned with volutes on a fluted stem, along with acanthus leaf carvings. The top is concave and decorated with gadrooning leading up to a square ogee finial. Additional gadrooning is present on the geometrically patterned plinth with scroll ends.
Local climate
Monument to Lady Perkins, 4 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Mary the Virgin sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- 4 William Pearce Monument,About 3m South of South-West Corner of Nave in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin
- 5 Phillips Monument,About 4m North of Oldland Monument in Churchyard of Church of St Mary
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