Monument to Lady Delamere at Monk's Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Monument.
Monument to Lady Delamere at Monk's Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-newel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Lady Delamere at Monk's Well Cottage, Vale Royal Park, Whitegate and Marton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 640 697
- Coordinates
- 53.22382, -2.53983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Lady Delamere at Monk's Well Cottage is a structure dated 1852, made of red sandstone ashlar. It features an octagonal canopy that shelters an octagonal monument. The entrance front has a stepped surround with three central steps and flower beds on either side, backed by an ashlar retaining wall with low square piers at the corners. The canopy is supported by diagonal buttresses at the angles, and it includes an arched doorway with a monogram and date in the sprandrels. Surrounding the other sides are arched cusped openings above low walls. A string course runs above, topped by a parapet inscribed with the words: "HER CHILDREN/ARISE UP AND CALL/HER BLESSED: HER/HUSBAND ALSO. AND/HE PRAISETH HER/PROV: XXXI. VER. XXXVIII." The roof above is stepped and made of ashlar, featuring a cross at the apex.
Inside, the monument has an octagonal lower body with a linked coat of arms in a quatrefoil shape opposite the doorway. A string course divides this lower body from the upper body, which has four diagonal buttresses framing a panel opposite the doorway and at the rear. This panel features a copper plaque inscribed in Gothic lettering that reads: "In grateful acknowledgement/of a debt of love which can/never be fully repaid/This memorial was raised/to Henrietta Elizabeth Lady/Delamere, the most excellent of/Wives and the best and kindest/of Mothers by her Husband/and her children/MDCCCLII." Above this is a gablet at the rear.
Local climate
Monument to Lady Delamere at Monk's Well Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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