Critchlow Memorial and railings 3 metres south of chancel of Church of St Luke is a Grade II* listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Tomb and railings.
Critchlow Memorial and railings 3 metres south of chancel of Church of St Luke
- WRENN ID
- quartered-ashlar-ochre
- 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
- Tomb and railings
- OS grid reference
- SK 113 614
- Coordinates
- 53.15041, -1.83186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Critchlow Memorial and its railings are located 3 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St Luke. This chest tomb and railings, dating from around 1853, are possibly designed by William Butterfield. The memorial is made of stone and features a large Gothic chest that stands approximately 2 metres high, with miniature bays. It has a deep plinth adorned with an undercut cusped quatrefoil pattern, and is framed by carved gabletted pilasters that surround inscribed panels. Above these, there is a miniature blind arcaded frieze of pointed arches over trefoil heads. The structure is topped with a cavetto cornice that carries fleurons along the surbase, leading to a pitched and hipped block top with a trefoil edge frieze and cut lines that mimic scalloped tiles, all enclosed by a cruciform design. The surrounding wrought-iron railings, which have spike heads, are arranged in three bays over the tomb, forming a round-arched profile that is cusped within and decorated with circular and trefoil devices, spaced by cusped ridges.
Local climate
Critchlow Memorial and railings 3 metres south of chancel of Church of St Luke sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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