Watts and Unidentified Monument,About 8m West of South-West Buttress of Tower in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. Chest tomb.

Watts and Unidentified Monument,About 8m West of South-West Buttress of Tower in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin

WRENN ID
rusted-oriel-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stroud
Constituency
Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Chest tomb
Address
Watts and Unidentified Monument,About 8m West of South-West Buttress of Tower in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Lane, Berkeley
OS grid reference
ST 684 990
Coordinates
51.68965, -2.45793
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Watts and an unidentified monument are located about 8 meters west of the south-west buttress of the tower in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary the Virgin. These are two chest tombs: one commemorates James Watts, who died in 1806, and the other is of unidentified origin from the early 19th century. Both are made of limestone and feature flat tops with moulded plinths and capping. The Watts monument stands on a large base that was formerly railed and has indented corners. The ends display a diamond frieze and oval panels, with a draped urn on the east side and a flaming torch in an urn on the west side. The sides have large oval inscription panels adorned with swags, with the inscription located on the north side. The unidentified monument is set on a smaller base with quarter baluster corners and sunk oval end panels. Its sides have raised ovals featuring rosettes in the spandrels, but the inscriptions are indecipherable. Notably, the south-east corner of the Watts monument is missing.

Local climate

Watts and Unidentified Monument,About 8m West of South-West Buttress of Tower in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin 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 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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