Monument to Timothy Hackworth, 27 Metres North-West of West Tower of Church of St. John is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Monument.
Monument to Timothy Hackworth, 27 Metres North-West of West Tower of Church of St. John
- WRENN ID
- pitched-turret-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NZ 228 264
- Coordinates
- 54.63282, -1.64743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pedestal monument dedicated to Timothy Hackworth, a railway engineer, located 27 metres north-west of the west tower of the Church of St. John. Erected in 1850, it is made of sandstone and features a white marble tablet. The monument has a square plan and is designed in the Greek revival style. It includes a low stepped plinth with a cyma-moulded top, a battered pedestal with the marble tablet on the east face, and a wider cap that has central pediments and large antefixae on each face, supporting a draped urn. The marble tablet is inscribed: "IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF TIMOTHY HACKWORTH, WHO DIED JULY 7TH. 1850, AGED 63 YEARS."
Local climate
Monument to Timothy Hackworth, 27 Metres North-West of West Tower of Church of St. John receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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