Gazebo and Blow Family Memorials is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. Gazebo, memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Gazebo and Blow Family Memorials
- WRENN ID
- gilded-latch-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gazebo, memorial
- Address
- Gazebo and Blow Family Memorials, Cud Hill, Painswick
- OS grid reference
- SO 857 125
- Coordinates
- 51.81119, -2.20752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gazebo and Blow family memorials are located in Upton St Leonards and date from 1914 to 1939. Designed by Detmar Blow for himself, the incomplete gazebo is made of random rubble limestone with ashlar dressings. It has a square shape with a single round-arched opening on each side except for the east side, which features a chamfered plinth and two slit vents with projecting stone slate sills. The interior was intended to have a stone groin vault, but only the wall arches were completed, and a shelf projects from the east wall.
To the east of the gazebo, there are two memorial ledger stones in the field. The first stone is inscribed with 'DETMAR BLOW/AND/WINIFRED/HIS WIFE', while the second stone reads "Richard Purcell/BLOW/Elder son of Detmar/and Winifred Blow/1915-1963". The lettering on the first memorial is likely by Eric Gill, similar to the Blow memorial in the Church of St Swithin, Brookthorpe. The site offers fine views across the Vale of Gloucester and is situated along the ridge of the escarpment from Hilles House, Harescombe, which was Detmar Blow's residence.
Local climate
Gazebo and Blow Family Memorials 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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