Hugh Mason Memorial Statue is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1987. Statue.
Hugh Mason Memorial Statue
- WRENN ID
- guardian-ember-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1987
- Type
- Statue
- Address
- Hugh Mason Memorial Statue, Trafalgar Square, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL7 0LN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 929 981
- Coordinates
- 53.4798, -2.10828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hugh Mason memorial statue is a Grade II listed statue located in Trafalgar Square, Ashton-under-Lyne. It was created in 1887 by sculptor J.W. Swynnerton and features a life-size bronze statue of Hugh Mason, set on a polished granite pedestal. The pedestal is inscribed with "Hugh Mason, born 1817 died 1886." Hugh Mason was a well-respected local industrialist and philosopher known for establishing Oxford Mills and constructing nearby workers' housing. The statue was originally situated in Chester Square before being relocated to its current position in the mid-1990s.
Local climate
Hugh Mason Memorial Statue 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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