Smith Memorial Approximately One Metre East of Chancel of Church of St Peter and St Felix is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Tombstone.
Smith Memorial Approximately One Metre East of Chancel of Church of St Peter and St Felix
- WRENN ID
- dim-flint-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Tombstone
- OS grid reference
- NZ 140 066
- Coordinates
- 54.45463, -1.78481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smith memorial is a tombstone located approximately one metre east of the chancel of the Church of St Peter and St Felix. It dates from around 1749 and is made of ashlar sandstone. The slab features a wave-shaped top and bears an inscription commemorating Samuel Smith, who died in 1749. He was a smelter and refiner in the West Indies and Great Britain. According to the Parish Registers, he resided at Whashton, where there was an 18th-century copper smelting mill.
Local climate
Smith Memorial Approximately One Metre East of Chancel of Church of St Peter and St Felix receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 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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