Wight Preston Monument in the Churchyard About 4 Metres North West of Porch of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. A C18 Monument.
Wight Preston Monument in the Churchyard About 4 Metres North West of Porch of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- third-brass-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- ST 597 631
- Coordinates
- 51.36588, -2.57927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wight Preston monument is a chest tomb located in the churchyard about 4 metres northwest of the porch of the Church of St. Mary in Stanton Drew. It dates from the 18th century and is made of limestone. The tomb features a shaped top with a moulded edge and corner pilasters that have incised panels. There are paired inscriptions on the north and south sides, commemorating John Wight Preston, with the earliest decipherable date being 1773 and the date of death noted as 1803.
Local climate
Wight Preston Monument in the Churchyard About 4 Metres North West of Porch of Church of St Mary receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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