Knight Monument in Churchyard About 3 Metres South of East End of South Aisle, Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Monument.
Knight Monument in Churchyard About 3 Metres South of East End of South Aisle, Church of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- graven-bastion-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SO 671 174
- Coordinates
- 51.85444, -2.47853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Knight monument is a chest tomb located about 3 meters south of the east end of the south aisle of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Abenhall. It commemorates John Knight, who died in 1800. The tomb is made of stone and features a flat lid with a moulded edge. Surrounding the lid is a vertical leaf frieze. The sides of the tomb have raised rectangular panels with moulded edges and scalloped corners that contain stylized flowers. The ends are adorned with elongated rectangular gadrooned balusters topped with fluted capitals. The entire structure rests on a base with a cavetto top. Additional inscriptions on the monument date up to 1846.
Local climate
Knight Monument in Churchyard About 3 Metres South of East End of South Aisle, Church of St Michael and All Angels receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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