Group of 4 Mainly Ricketts Family Monuments in the Churchyard Approximately 10m North-West of Tower to Former Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1988. Monument.
Group of 4 Mainly Ricketts Family Monuments in the Churchyard Approximately 10m North-West of Tower to Former Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- western-clay-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SO 770 032
- Coordinates
- 51.72789, -2.33315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This group of four monuments, mainly belonging to the Ricketts family, is located in the churchyard approximately 10 meters north-west of the tower of the former Church of St Peter. Dating from the early to mid-19th century, the monuments are made of sandstone and include three chest tombs and one pedestal tomb.
The three chest tombs are designed in the Neo-Greek style. Two of them feature antefixae at the corners of their tops and are inscribed to James Ricketts, who died in 1820, and Edward Ricketts, who died in 1856. The third chest tomb has a Vitruvian scroll frieze beneath a cornice top with weathered coping, inscribed to Edward Osborne, who died in 1862, as well as to later members of the Ricketts family.
The pedestal tomb is distinguished by its attached reeded corner columns, with the east and west sides bowed and featuring oval panels and paterae. It has a high domical coping on top, which originally had an urn finial, though the top of the urn had fallen off by the time of the survey in September 1986.
Local climate
Group of 4 Mainly Ricketts Family Monuments in the Churchyard Approximately 10m North-West of Tower to Former Church of St Peter 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 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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