Group of 3 Mainly Peach Family Monuments in the Churchyard Approximately 18m North of North Transept to Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1988. Monument.

Group of 3 Mainly Peach Family Monuments in the Churchyard Approximately 18m North of North Transept to Church of the Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stroud
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1988
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
SO 872 008
Coordinates
51.70617, -2.18601
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A group of three monuments, mainly belonging to the Peach family, is located in the churchyard approximately 18 meters north of the north transept of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Minchinhampton. These monuments date from the early 18th century to the early 19th century and include an obelisk, a pedestal tomb, and a chest tomb.

The granite obelisk features slate panels and stands on a square pedestal with plain recessed inscription panels on each face. It is set on a moulded plinth within a surround that was formerly railed. One of the inscription panels is badly damaged and commemorates a member of the Peach family who died in 1832, erected by Charles, his youngest brother, in "warmest affection, veneration and esteem."

The tall rectangular pedestal tomb has plain grey slate panels, with a fine trophy on the south end. It features a cornice moulded top with gadrooned domical coping and a high moulded plinth. The inscriptions on this tomb are likely later restorations from the 18th or 19th century, including one for John Peach, who died in 1736, on the east side, and another for Samuel Peach of Dunkirk House, whose date of death is not specified, on the west side.

The early 18th-century chest tomb has bolection moulded panels and panelled corner pilasters, with oval end panels and a central panel on the sides. A later inscription on the east end commemorates the Reverend James Bradley, D.D., who lived from 1693 to 1762 and served as Astronomer Royal from 1742 to 1762. The original brass plate for this inscription is now located in the church.

Local climate

Group of 3 Mainly Peach Family Monuments in the Churchyard Approximately 18m North of North Transept to Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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