Poor Souls' Light in the Churchyard Approximately 12 Metres South West of Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. A Medieval Monument.
Poor Souls' Light in the Churchyard Approximately 12 Metres South West of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- swift-paling-jet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SO 903 059
- Coordinates
- 51.75187, -2.14124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poor Souls' Light is a late 13th century limestone structure located in the churchyard approximately 12 meters southwest of the Church of All Saints in Bisley Village. The monument features a hexagonal lower part set on a circular base, with each face displaying a trefoil-headed arcade bay. Attached corner shafts have moulded capitals adorned with delicately carved banding. The structure is topped with a hexagonal spire, which has lucarnes at the base of each face that include weathered cusped openings. Most of the original roll mouldings on the spire are missing. A small Celtic cross, added in the 19th century, sits atop the spire. Historically, the space under the spire was used for candles during masses said for the poor. This monument is noted to be the only external example of its type in the country.
Local climate
Poor Souls' Light in the Churchyard Approximately 12 Metres South West of Church of All Saints receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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