Sundial in churchyard of St Mary's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 October 2000. Sundial.
Sundial in churchyard of St Mary's Church
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-keystone-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 October 2000
- Type
- Sundial
- Address
- Sundial in churchyard of St Mary's Church, Derwen
- OS grid reference
- SJ 070 507
- Coordinates
- 53.04558, -3.38849
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The sundial in the churchyard of St Mary's Church is a small bronze piece, complete with its gnomon, mounted on a pillar made of local limestone that stands just over 1 metre tall. The pillar has a square shape with chamfered edges and features an exaggerated entasis profile, culminating in an enlarged square top.
Local climate
Sundial in churchyard of St Mary's Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 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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