Monument to Sarah Lees is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1993. Monument.
Monument to Sarah Lees
- WRENN ID
- stark-rotunda-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton MP: Jim McMahon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1993
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SD 914 039
- Coordinates
- 53.53197, -2.12973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Sarah Lees is located in Werneth Park, Oldham, and was erected around 1938. It is made of white ashlar and bronze and features a tall pylon with crosses in relief on each side, rising from a hexagonal plinth that sits on a circular base. This base is positioned in the center of a raised flower bed, which is surrounded by a low stone retaining wall that includes mutilated drinking fountains at the cardinal points. The circular base displays low relief bronzes that depict the signs of the zodiac and figures representing the seasons, along with a bust of Sarah Lees and an inscription plate featuring additional low relief bronzes on the hexagon above. This monument was established in memory of Sarah Lees, who was a prominent local philanthropist and public figure, becoming the first woman on the Oldham town council in 1907 and serving as mayor in 1910. Upon her death in 1935, she bequeathed her former home in Werneth Park to the town.
Local climate
Monument to Sarah Lees sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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