Tablet in the Wall of the Vicarage Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1985. A Victorian Memorial tablet.
Tablet in the Wall of the Vicarage Garden
- WRENN ID
- haunted-tallow-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1985
- Type
- Memorial tablet
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Tablet in the Wall of the Vicarage Garden, Kirdford
- OS grid reference
- TQ 018 266
- Coordinates
- 51.03005, -0.54921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial tablet is located in the south-west corner of the wall of the Vicarage Garden in Kirdford, erected in 1850 by the then Vicar, the Reverend J F Cole. This tablet was placed at the closest point to the former Black Bear Inn. It features a text found on a slip of paper in the garden, which discusses the negative effects of drunkenness, describing it as a degradation that defaces God's image and causes various physical ailments. The text emphasizes the harm drunkenness brings to both the individual and society.
Local climate
Tablet in the Wall of the Vicarage Garden receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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