Group of Three Monuments Approximately 20 Metres North of North Wall of Abbey Nave is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1994. Monument.

Group of Three Monuments Approximately 20 Metres North of North Wall of Abbey Nave

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tewkesbury
Constituency
Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 April 1994
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
SO 890 324
Coordinates
51.99066, -2.16109
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This group of three monuments, located approximately 20 metres north of the north wall of the Abbey nave in Tewkesbury, dates from the 18th and 19th centuries.

The first monument is a chest tomb from 1788 made of sandstone, dedicated to George Vernon, who died in 1788 at the age of 17. It features a flat ledger slab with moulded edges, raised panels, and a flared cavetto base on a platform. Additional inscriptions on the ledger commemorate Thomas, who died in infancy in 1805, and Susannah, who died in 1807 at the age of 2 weeks, among others up to 1973. The inscriptions on the south and east sides appear to have been recut.

The second monument is an upright chest tomb from the mid-19th century, also made of sandstone, dedicated to William Moore and others. It has a flat pyramidal ledger with leaf enrichment along the edges, moulded edges, raised panels, and inset ends leading to a moulded cornice and base, all resting on a cavetto base and sharing a platform with the Merrett monument.

The third monument is another chest tomb from 1833, made of sandstone, dedicated to Thomas Merrett and others. It features a flat ledger slab with moulded edges, raised panels, and inset ends, all aligned to a common cornice mould, resting on a bulbous ovolo-mould base and sharing a platform with the adjacent Moore monument.

Local climate

Group of Three Monuments Approximately 20 Metres North of North Wall of Abbey Nave receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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