Monument to Frederick Hardwicke, 15 Metres North of West Tower of Church of St. Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Monument.
Monument to Frederick Hardwicke, 15 Metres North of West Tower of Church of St. Edmund
- WRENN ID
- worn-mortar-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NZ 356 288
- Coordinates
- 54.65342, -1.4491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Frederick Hardwicke is located 15 metres north of the west tower of the Church of St. Edmund. It was created in 1854 by M. Spark and is made of sandstone, standing about 2.0 metres high. The monument features a square base that supports a rectangular pedestal with a projecting pedimented top. Each corner of the pedestal has an attached Tuscan colonette, and it is inscribed in Gothic lettering with some scrollwork: "IN MEMORY OF FREDERICK HARDWICKE (BOLTON), AGED 21 YEARS, SERJEANT IN THE VITH INNISKILLING DRAGOONS WHO FELL IN THE MEMORABLE CHARGE OF HEAVY CAVALRY AT BALAKLAVA ON THE 25TH OF OCTOBER, MDCCCLIV. BELOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM." The pedimented top features a blank shield in the tympanum.
Local climate
Monument to Frederick Hardwicke, 15 Metres North of West Tower of Church of St. Edmund sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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