Monument to John Vaughan is a Grade II listed building in the Middlesbrough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1988. Monument.
Monument to John Vaughan
- WRENN ID
- buried-forge-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Middlesbrough
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough and Thornaby East MP: Andy McDonald (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1988
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to John Vaughan, Victoria Square
- OS grid reference
- NZ 496 201
- Coordinates
- 54.57434, -1.23404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to John Vaughan, dated 1884, is located at the south end of Victoria Square in Middlesbrough. Designed by G.A. Lawson, it features a bronze figure of a standing male, with a coat draped over his left arm, positioned on a shallow pedestal and a deep, slightly-tapered plinth made of roughly dressed ironstone. Each face of the pedestal has a relief-sculptured tablet depicting an ironstone mine, ironworks, iron-rolling mill, and railway. A renewed tablet on the north face of the plinth is inscribed with information about John Vaughan, including his years of life (1799-1868), his role as Mayor of Middlesbrough in 1855, his discovery of ironstone in the Cleveland Hills, and his partnership in Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd., which built one of the first iron works in Middlesbrough in 1840. The monument was originally located in Exchange Place and was moved to its current site in 1914. It is included for its historic interest.
Local climate
Monument to John Vaughan receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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