Sweet Monument 4 Metres South of Parish Church Chancel is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. Monument.
Sweet Monument 4 Metres South of Parish Church Chancel
- WRENN ID
- eternal-dormer-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SY 551 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71433, -2.63624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sweet Monument is a table-tomb located 4 metres south of the chancel of the Parish Church in Litton Cheney. It dates from the late 17th century and is made of stone, featuring a flat top-block with a round-moulded edge. The tomb has bulbous ends adorned with a skull-and-cross-bones motif. It commemorates Sturmy Sweet, the son of Ellias and Elizabeth Sweet, who died in 1693.
Local climate
Sweet Monument 4 Metres South of Parish Church Chancel receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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