Monument 5 Metres to North of Church of Our Blessed Lady Immaculate is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. Monument.
Monument 5 Metres to North of Church of Our Blessed Lady Immaculate
- WRENN ID
- leaning-rotunda-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South MP: Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NZ 308 566
- Coordinates
- 54.90376, -1.52073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This monument, located 5 metres north of the Church of Our Blessed Lady Immaculate, commemorates the miners who lost their lives in an explosion on 2nd March 1885. It was erected by the miners of Usworth colliery and designed by Emley of Newcastle. The monument features a white marble plinth set on a two-stepped sandstone base. At each corner, free-standing columns with stiff-leaf capitals support a tall pyramid, which includes gablets at its base and is topped with a cross finial. Surrounding the monument is a low chamfered stone curb with an original low iron railing on posts that have urn finials.
Local climate
Monument 5 Metres to North of Church of Our Blessed Lady Immaculate receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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