Monument Unidentified, 18 Metres South-East of Parish Church of St Peter, Porch in the Church Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Monument.
Monument Unidentified, 18 Metres South-East of Parish Church of St Peter, Porch in the Church Yard
- WRENN ID
- quiet-tracery-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SY 602 858
- Coordinates
- 50.67069, -2.56366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century table-tomb located 18 metres south-east of the Parish Church of St Peter, near the porch in the churchyard. The tomb is made of stone and features blind arches on each side. The top block is adorned with an ovolo-moulded cornice. On the south side, there are two carved rosettes, and the right-hand panel contains a partly illegible inscription that reads, "body of John (illegible) died 16(7)."
Local climate
Monument Unidentified, 18 Metres South-East of Parish Church of St Peter, Porch in the Church Yard 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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