Monument to Oliver Heywood is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1998. A Victorian Monument.
Monument to Oliver Heywood
- WRENN ID
- shifting-bonework-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Salford MP: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1998
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Oliver Heywood, Cross Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 817 988
- Coordinates
- 53.48561, -2.27713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Oliver Heywood is located on Cross Lane in Salford and dates from around 1892. It is designed as a polished granite obelisk set on a stone base, which features radial buttresses topped with volutes. Each face of the obelisk has a low relief bronze medallion, and there is an inscription on the base.
Local climate
Monument to Oliver Heywood sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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