Smith Monument in the Churchyard About One Metre North of Tower of Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Monument.
Smith Monument in the Churchyard About One Metre North of Tower of Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- outer-hinge-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Smith Monument in the Churchyard About One Metre North of Tower of Church of St James, Antony
- OS grid reference
- SX 398 545
- Coordinates
- 50.36932, -4.25377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smith monument, located in the churchyard about one metre north of the tower of the Church of St James, is a headstone with a sarcophagus and footstone dating from the early 19th century. Made of limestone, it is designed in a Neo-Greek style. The headstone features a segmental head with shaped shoulders, a carved mourning female and tomb in relief, and a swagged border. There is a raised panel with a triangular top intended for an inscription, commemorating John Smith, a late Purser in the Royal Navy, who died in 1806, along with other family members. The coffin-shaped sarcophagus stands about 15 centimetres high. The footstone has an eared segmental head and displays the initials J.S. 1806 and EI 1860.
Local climate
Smith Monument in the Churchyard About One Metre North of Tower of Church of St James sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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