Charlesworth Memorial 25 Metres South of Tower of Church of Church of Saint Bartholemew is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Chest tomb.
Charlesworth Memorial 25 Metres South of Tower of Church of Church of Saint Bartholemew
- WRENN ID
- narrow-transept-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SK 088 649
- Coordinates
- 53.18165, -1.86885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Charlesworth Memorial is a chest tomb located 25 meters south of the tower of the Church of Saint Bartholomew in Longnor. It commemorates James Charlesworth, who died in 1842. The tomb is made of plastered stone and features a sarcophagus resting on ball feet, which is set on a moulded plinth. It has a moulded surbase and a concave shape that rises to an urn finial. Surrounding the tomb is an iron railing adorned with foliage heads.
Local climate
Charlesworth Memorial 25 Metres South of Tower of Church of Church of Saint Bartholemew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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