Bower Monument in Churchyard About 2 Miles South East of Porch, Church of the Holy Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Chest tomb.
Bower Monument in Churchyard About 2 Miles South East of Porch, Church of the Holy Cross
- WRENN ID
- salt-sill-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Address
- Bower Monument in Churchyard About 2 Miles South East of Porch, Church of the Holy Cross, Church Street, Babcary
- OS grid reference
- ST 561 287
- Coordinates
- 51.05653, -2.62711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bower monument is a chest tomb located in the churchyard about 2 miles southeast of the porch of the Church of the Holy Cross. It dates from the 18th century and is made of Doulting and Keinton stone. The base is a buried plain slab with fluted corner plasters and panelled centrepieces on the sides. It features a pulvinated frieze and moulded coving on the hipped top. The monument commemorates several members of the Bower family, including William Bower, who died in 1724, and John Lewis Bower, who died in 1785.
Local climate
Bower Monument in Churchyard About 2 Miles South East of Porch, Church of the Holy Cross receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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