Cooper Monument, in the Churchyard, About 4 Metres East of South East Corner of South Transept, Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1987. Tomb.
Cooper Monument, in the Churchyard, About 4 Metres East of South East Corner of South Transept, Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- small-paling-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SO 700 312
- Coordinates
- 51.97864, -2.43746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cooper monument is a pedestal tomb located in the churchyard, approximately 4 meters east of the south-east corner of the south transept of the Church of St. Mary. It dates from the third quarter of the 18th century and is made of stone with a hexagonal shape. The monument features a hexagonal base that likely supported an urn, which is now missing as of 1985. It has a pyramidal top adorned with alternating urns and paterae in relief, along with roll moulding and a flat lid with a moulded edge. The moulded frieze displays sides with alternating tall ovals and corner paterae, as well as raised rectangles with scalloped corners. The base is also moulded. The monument shows some weathering, with the earliest readable date of death being 1777, and later inscriptions extending to 1907.
Local climate
Cooper Monument, in the Churchyard, About 4 Metres East of South East Corner of South Transept, Church of St Mary receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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