Hicks Monument in the Churchyard About 17 Metres North West of Tower of Church of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1988. Chest tomb.
Hicks Monument in the Churchyard About 17 Metres North West of Tower of Church of St Stephen
- WRENN ID
- open-parapet-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1988
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 944 533
- Coordinates
- 50.34395, -4.89018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hicks Monument is an early 19th-century chest tomb located about 17 meters northwest of the tower of the Church of St Stephen in St Stephen-in-Brannel. It is made of granite and features a slate inscription tablet. The tomb has a rectangular shape and rests on a squared plinth with plain pilasters. The flat top has a moulded edge, and the inscription tablet is set into the top. The monument commemorates Walter Hicks and is dated 1812.
Local climate
Hicks Monument in the Churchyard About 17 Metres North West of Tower of Church of St Stephen receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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 0.2°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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- Former Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School)
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