Monument to William Frankis in the Churchyard Approximately 9 Metres North West of Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. A Georgian Tomb.
Monument to William Frankis in the Churchyard Approximately 9 Metres North West of Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- distant-terrace-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- SO 861 149
- Coordinates
- 51.83319, -2.20168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to William Frankis is a pedestal tomb located in the churchyard approximately 9 meters northwest of the Church of St. Leonard. It dates from 1816 and is made of sandstone. The tomb has a square shape with attached reeded corner columns that stand on a plain plinth, supporting a wide projecting top with pyramidal coping above. There are oval side inscription panels with branches above them on the east and west sides, and rectangular panels with curved tops on the north and south sides. The east side is inscribed with the name WILLIAM FRANKIS, who died in 1816. The tomb is set on large sandstone slabs that cover a stone-lined vault below, and there are concerns that cracking of the slabs may lead to an early collapse.
Local climate
Monument to William Frankis in the Churchyard Approximately 9 Metres North West of Church of St Leonard 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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