Statue of Richard Cobden is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1975. Monument.
Statue of Richard Cobden
- WRENN ID
- haunted-wattle-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Stockport MP: Navendu Mishra (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1975
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Statue of Richard Cobden, St Peters Square
- OS grid reference
- SJ 894 902
- Coordinates
- 53.40913, -2.15977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Statue of Richard Cobden, located on the east side of St Peter's Square, was created in the mid-19th century by George G Adams. This standing statue in bronze commemorates Richard Cobden, who was a Member of Parliament for Stockport from 1841 to 1847. It is positioned on a stone plinth and forms a visual group with the nearby Parish Church of St Peter.
Local climate
Statue of Richard Cobden 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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