Monument 10 metres South East of St Annes Church is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1987. Monument.
Monument 10 metres South East of St Annes Church
- WRENN ID
- dusk-hearth-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1987
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SK 251 723
- Coordinates
- 53.24721, -1.62384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This monument, located 10 meters southeast of St Anne's Church, is a Grade II listed structure dedicated to Robert Stafford, dating from 1702. It is made of gritstone ashlar and designed in the shape of a coffin. The top features relief carvings of an hourglass, a serpent eating its tail, crossbones, and wings. At the foot, there is a skull and crossbones also carved in relief, and stone lifting rings are carved at both ends. The coffin is supported by a rectangular chamfered base. An inscription on the top reads, "Here lyeth the body of Robert Stafford who was buried here March ye 20th Anno 1702 aged 78. Surgite Mortui."
Local climate
Monument 10 metres South East of St Annes Church receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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