Moore Monument in Churchyard, About 4 Metres North of Chancel, Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Chest tomb.
Moore Monument in Churchyard, About 4 Metres North of Chancel, Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- WRENN ID
- quiet-quoin-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 321 172
- Coordinates
- 50.95084, -2.96761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Moore monument is a chest tomb located about 4 metres north of the chancel of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ashill, dating from the 17th century. It is made of Ham stone and features a moulded base with plain sides and flanks. The heavy flat top is adorned with cyma-recta coving. The monument commemorates Ambrose Moore, whose death date is not readable, and his wife Alce, who died in 1663.
Local climate
Moore Monument in Churchyard, About 4 Metres North of Chancel, Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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