Monument to Grace Darling about 35m west of Church of St Aidan is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1969. A Victorian Monument. 1 related planning application.
Monument to Grace Darling about 35m west of Church of St Aidan
- WRENN ID
- moated-ember-gilt
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1969
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Grace Darling about 35m west of Church of St Aidan, Radcliffe Road, Bamburgh, NE69 7AB
- OS grid reference
- NU 177 349
- Coordinates
- 55.60793, -1.71922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Monument to Grace Darling, located about 35 meters west of the Church of St Aidan, was constructed in 1844 based on designs by Anthony Salvin, featuring a life-size effigy by Charles Raymond Smith. It underwent restorations in 1885 by F R Wilson and in 1894 by Hick & Charlwood.
This canopied tomb is designed in the Decorated Gothic style and is made of ashlar and bronze, with cast-iron railings and a Portland stone effigy. The rectangular base supports a carved, recumbent effigy of Grace Darling, depicted holding a stone oar beside her. The figure rests on a mattress adorned with carved seaweed forms. The canopy is supported by eight bronze spiral colonettes with open leafy capitals, from which triple trefoiled pointed arches with ornate leafy spandrels extend. The monument features bronze cresting with quatrefoils and is enclosed by cast-iron railings topped with spear-head finials.
Inscribed in incised Roman letters on the east face of the base is W[...] Sc[...] 1838; on the west face is C.R.SMITH; the north face bears the Gothic inscription: Died - 20 October 1842-aged 26 years; and the south face has G[…] D[…] Born 24th Novr 1815. Additionally, raised Roman letters on a bronze plaque on the south face read: GRACE HORSLEY DARLING / BORN – NOV. 24TH 1815 / DIED – OCT 1841 / AGED 26 YEARS.
Local climate
Monument to Grace Darling about 35m west of Church of St Aidan receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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