Hodges Monument 6 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary. is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1985. Table-tomb.
Hodges Monument 6 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary.
- WRENN ID
- guardian-trefoil-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1985
- Type
- Table-tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 618 038
- Coordinates
- 50.83303, -2.54273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hodges Monument is a table-tomb located 6 metres east of the chancel of the Church of St Mary in Batcombe, dating from the mid-18th century. It is made of stone and features one fielded-panel on each side, along with fielded-panel pilasters. The tomb has a hipped top block and a moulded cornice. The inscriptions commemorate Kemey, the wife of Jonathan Hodges, who died on May 27, 1759, at the age of 54, and Jonathan Hodges, who died on October 1, 1770.
Local climate
Hodges Monument 6 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary. receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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