Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard Approximately 1 Metre South of Chapel to Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. Chest tomb.
Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard Approximately 1 Metre South of Chapel to Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- carved-lantern-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SO 763 124
- Coordinates
- 51.81001, -2.34385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century chest tomb located approximately 1 meter south of the chapel to the Church of St. Lawrence in Longney Village. It is made of limestone and features lyre ends with a winged cherub's head on the west side. On the east side, there is another winged cherub's head above three death's heads and cross-bones set in a shell niche. The south side has a swag inscription panel, while the north side displays a wreathed oval panel with a swag above it and two winged cherub's heads, flanked by putti holding open books. The tomb has a cyma moulded top and base, but the inscriptions are illegible.
Local climate
Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard Approximately 1 Metre South of Chapel to Church of St Lawrence receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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