Monument to Bishop Brown in the burial ground of the church of St David is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 March 2025. Monument.
Monument to Bishop Brown in the burial ground of the church of St David
- WRENN ID
- high-hall-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 March 2025
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Bishop Brown in the burial ground of the church of St David, Pantasaph, Holywell, Whitford
- OS grid reference
- SJ 160 759
- Coordinates
- 53.27421, -3.25975
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The monument to Bishop Brown is a high Gothic memorial located in the burial ground of the church of St David. It features a small chest tomb set on a moulded and tapered plinth, topped with a roof-like slab that is gabled in the shape of a cross. The top slab is covered with fish-scale slates and has a rolled and reeded cross. The sides of the tomb are inscribed. At the head of the tomb, there is an ornate foliate cross, which is richly decorated on all sides with various emblems and images in both high and low relief. The cross is flanked by angels that are supported on composite piers with clustered shafts and traceried gablets.
Local climate
Monument to Bishop Brown in the burial ground of the church of St David receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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