Monument to Wm. Atkinson C.20 Yards South of Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Monument to Wm. Atkinson C.20 Yards South of Church of St Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- proud-bastion-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NY 996 844
- Coordinates
- 55.15394, -2.00723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a churchyard memorial located about 20 yards south of the Church of St. Bartholomew in Kirkwhelpington, dating from 1790. It is made of ashlar and features a plain tablet with an arched top inscribed to William Atkinson, who died from a fall from his horse. The inscription reads:
"In an extensive business, Industry and Integrity brought him patronage and Respect. Stranger alike to servility and Oppression he studiously avoided to give offence to the Rich and cherished the laudable Endeavours of the poor. READER! That thou mayst merit the sigh and tear due to the memory of the good and just Like his Let thy life be useful and blameless."
On the rear of the stone, there is an earlier carving of cherubs, which commemorates a death from 1775.
Local climate
Monument to Wm. Atkinson C.20 Yards South of Church of St Bartholomew receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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