Beswick Memorial 10 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Memorial.
Beswick Memorial 10 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- standing-gravel-hawk
- 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
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SK 025 671
- Coordinates
- 53.20167, -1.96277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beswick Memorial is a chest tomb located 10 meters south-east of the chancel of the Church of St Paul in Quarnford. It commemorates James Darby Beswick, who died in 1857. The tomb is made of stone and features pilasters at each corner, with acanthus consoles supporting a string course and a patera above. The sides are oval and raised, inscribed, and the ends display radial bas-relief acanthus. The top of the tomb is a moulded slab.
Local climate
Beswick Memorial 10 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Paul 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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