Browning Monument in the Churchyard Approximately 3 Metres South of Porch to Church of St Swithin is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Browning Monument in the Churchyard Approximately 3 Metres South of Porch to Church of St Swithin
- WRENN ID
- stony-porch-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SO 835 122
- Coordinates
- 51.8087, -2.24056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Browning monument is a chest tomb located in the churchyard, approximately 3 meters south of the porch to the Church of St. Swithin. It dates from 1654 and is made of limestone. The tomb features filleted mouldings above and below recessed chamfered plain inscription panels on the sides, with raised lozenge designs at the ends. Each corner has plain attached columns. The top is thickly ovolo-moulded, and the base has a cornice moulding. The north side is inscribed in crude capitals with the name THOMAS BROWNING, who died in 1654.
Local climate
Browning Monument in the Churchyard Approximately 3 Metres South of Porch to Church of St Swithin 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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