Church of St Mary, Former Font Approximately 4 Metres West of Tower is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. A C18 Monument.
Church of St Mary, Former Font Approximately 4 Metres West of Tower
- WRENN ID
- quartered-spindle-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SP 819 543
- Coordinates
- 52.1812, -0.80322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary has a former font located approximately 4 meters west of the tower. This bird-bath, which was originally a font, dates from the early to mid-18th century and is made of veined marble. It features an oval plinth with four slender volutes that support an oval bowl.
Local climate
Church of St Mary, Former Font Approximately 4 Metres West of Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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