Fourteen Momuments Including Rose, Dawkins and Townsend, About 9 to 18 Metres South East of South East Porch Buttress in Churchyard of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Tomb, monument.
Fourteen Momuments Including Rose, Dawkins and Townsend, About 9 to 18 Metres South East of South East Porch Buttress in Churchyard of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- brooding-merlon-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Tomb, monument
- OS grid reference
- SP 151 011
- Coordinates
- 51.70884, -1.782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes fourteen monuments located about 9 to 18 meters southeast of the southeast porch buttress in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary in Fairford. Among these are five chest tombs and nine headstones.
The chest tombs include an unidentified tomb from the early 18th century to the north, and the tomb of Rose from 1786 to the southwest, with three additional tombs included for their group value: Dawkins from 1823, Townsend from 1842, and Rose from 1857. The tombs are made of limestone. The unidentified tomb features a large splayed plinth and capping, with plain slab sides and ends, and small recessed rectangles on each side towards the west. The Rose tomb (1786) has a stepped tent top with a curved section, a moulded plinth and capping on a tall double base, a panelled frieze, and fielded sides and ends, with flanking reeded pilasters. The tops of the panels are badly eroded.
The nine headstones are arranged in a row to the south, starting east of the Rose tomb from 1857, and are mostly from the late 18th century. Six of these headstones feature high relief cartouches and cherubs' heads, with plain stones at the ends and center. The northernmost headstone is dated 1775.
Local climate
Fourteen Momuments Including Rose, Dawkins and Townsend, About 9 to 18 Metres South East of South East Porch Buttress in Churchyard of Church of St Mary receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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