Wood Monument, Approximately 7 Metres South of West End of South Chapel at Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1991. Monument.
Wood Monument, Approximately 7 Metres South of West End of South Chapel at Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- open-gargoyle-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1991
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SU 968 439
- Coordinates
- 51.18689, -0.61587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wood Monument, located approximately 7 metres south of the west end of the south chapel at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, is a chest tomb dating from around 1816 and is designed in the Neo-Classical style. It is constructed from ashlar stone and features a chamfered base stone and a moulded plinth. The monument has recessed corners with fluted balusters that have swept plinths and capitals, supporting a lid with a triple-roll-moulded edge. Each side of the tomb has a concave-cornered panel within an architrave, adorned with fan decoration in the spandrels. The panels bear commemorative inscriptions for various members of the Wood family, with the earliest recorded death being that of George Wood, who died in 1816. The inscription notes, "A fatal accident deprived him of life and his afflicted parents of a darling son," followed by a verse that is largely obscured. The lid of the monument is split, and one corner is broken off.
Local climate
Wood Monument, Approximately 7 Metres South of West End of South Chapel at Church of St Peter and St Paul receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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