Monument to First Lord Armstrong at South West of Detached Graveyard is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Monument.
Monument to First Lord Armstrong at South West of Detached Graveyard
- WRENN ID
- blind-truss-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to First Lord Armstrong at South West of Detached Graveyard, Church Street, Rothbury
- OS grid reference
- NU 057 015
- Coordinates
- 55.30824, -1.91137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to the 1st Lord Armstrong, located at the south-west of the detached graveyard, was erected in 1900. It is made of cut stone and features a paved rectangle enclosed by a dwarf wall with moulded coping. At the west end, there is a two-stepped base leading to the plinth of a Celtic cross, which is adorned with plant scrolls and a central rose boss at the top. The plinth bears inscriptions commemorating William George, 1st Lord Armstrong of Cragside, who died in 1900, stating, "HIS SCIENTIFIC ATTAINMENTS GAINED HIM A WORLD WIDE CELEBRITY, AND HIS GREAT PHILANTHROPY THE GRATITUDE OF THE POOR." It also commemorates Margaret Lady Armstrong, who died in 1893, and includes text from Ecclesiastes along with the Armstrong family arms.
Local climate
Monument to First Lord Armstrong at South West of Detached Graveyard receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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