Obelisk in St John's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Obelisk in St John's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- over-bailey-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Obelisk in St John's Churchyard, Devizes
- OS grid reference
- SU 004 612
- Coordinates
- 51.35017, -1.99516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The obelisk in St John's Churchyard commemorates the drowning of four people on Sunday, 30 June 1751. It is made of ashlar and stands on a plinth, which features an inscription.
Local climate
Obelisk in St John's Churchyard receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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