Monument to Walter Mavin at South East 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 Walter Mavin at South East of Detached Graveyard
- WRENN ID
- over-crypt-crimson
- 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 Walter Mavin at South East of Detached Graveyard, Church Street, Rothbury
- OS grid reference
- NU 057 015
- Coordinates
- 55.3082, -1.91054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Walter Mavin, located at the southeast of the detached graveyard, was erected in 1900. It is made of cut stone and features a rectangular plot with a chamfered kerb and a headstone inscribed with the name Walter Mavin, known as 'the Coquet Angler', who lived from 1814 to 1900. The headstone includes a relief carving depicting a river scene with fish, a heron, and bulrushes, along with the following verse:
"BUT WHERE'S THE AULD FISHER SAE BENT AN' SAE LAME WHA CAM ILKA SPRING WI' HIS ROD AN' HIS CREEL? DEATH'S CA'D HIM AWA' TO HIS LANG LATEST HAME AND HE'LL WANDER NAE MAIR BY THE STREAMS HE LOED WEEL."
Local climate
Monument to Walter Mavin at South East 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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