Monument C20 Yards to North of Church of St John the Evangelist 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 C20 Yards to North of Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- hidden-keep-yarrow
- 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
- OS grid reference
- SJ 634 662
- Coordinates
- 53.19248, -2.54793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a monument located about 20 yards north of the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Winsford, commemorating those who died in the fire at Over Cotton Mill in 1874. The monument is made of yellow sandstone ashlar and features a square plinth with a chamfered edge, a moulded base also with a chamfered edge, and a slightly tapering square body. At the top, there is an octagonal section with gables and a cross at the center.
The east face of the monument has an inscription that reads: "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE HERE INSCRIBED AND WHO LOST THEIR LIVES BY THE FIRE WHICH OCCURRED AT THE OVER COTTON MILL ON THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FOUR 'AND WHAT I SAY UNTO YOU I SAY UNTO ALL. WATCH.' St Mark 13.37."
On the sides of the monument, there are four names inscribed of those who perished, with the oldest being thirty-four years old and the youngest just three months old.
Local climate
Monument C20 Yards to North of Church of St John the Evangelist 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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