Bishop and Grundey Monuments, in the Churchyard, About 8 Metres South South East of East Corner of Former Central Tower, 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. Monuments.
Bishop and Grundey Monuments, in the Churchyard, About 8 Metres South South East of East Corner of Former Central Tower, Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- deep-portal-sorrel
- 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
- Monuments
- OS grid reference
- SO 700 312
- Coordinates
- 51.97858, -2.43741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bishop and Grundey monuments are pedestal tombs located in the churchyard about 8 meters south-southeast of the east corner of the former central tower of the Church of St. Mary. The Bishop monument, dating from the early 19th century, features a square base with a small reeded circular dome on top, a flat surface, and a moulded edge. The sides are framed and plain with slightly raised corners, and there is a recessed rectangular panel with a plain oval and low relief leaves in the spandrels. The base is moulded, but two side panels are eroded, with the earliest legible date being 1816.
The Grundey monument is hexagonal in shape. It originally had a circular base for an urn, which was missing at the time of the survey in 1985. The monument has an octagonal top and a scotia moulded base, with a flat surface on the main section and a moulded edge. It features a reeded frieze with oval paterae at the corners, and the sides alternate between tall ovals with corner paterae and rectangles with scalloped corners. There are later inscriptions dating to 1839, with a long 's' used in one of the inscriptions.
Local climate
Bishop and Grundey Monuments, in the Churchyard, About 8 Metres South South East of East Corner of Former Central Tower, 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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