Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 12 Metres North of Nave North Wall of the Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. A Post-Medieval Monument.
Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 12 Metres North of Nave North Wall of the Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- buried-paling-gorse
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1988
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SO 633 025
- Coordinates
- 51.72048, -2.53239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century chest tomb located about 12 meters north of the north wall of the nave of the Church of St Mary. It is made of sandstone and features a thick flat top slab with a moulded edge. The tomb has a decorated pulvinated frieze and high relief carved ends that include rosettes and drapes. There are sunk inscription panels, with the base having sunk at the time of survey in September 1983. The south-facing panel is badly worn, while the north panel has some well-preserved 17th-century incised lettering, though neither the name nor the date is now decipherable. This tomb is an important historical artifact, despite its wear, due to the nature of the forest sandstone.
Local climate
Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 12 Metres North of Nave North Wall of the Church of St Mary receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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