Sir John Bent Mp Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. Funerary monument.
Sir John Bent Mp Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- tenth-jamb-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Funerary monument
- Address
- Sir John Bent Mp Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Smithdown Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 376 889
- Coordinates
- 53.39339, -2.93922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sir John Bent MP Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery is a funerary monument built in 1857 in the Classical Revival style. It is constructed from ashlar and features a square base with two steps leading up to a pedestal. Each side of the pedestal has a panel flanked by reversed torches, with one panel inscribed. Above the pedestal is an aedicule supported by square Doric columns, which is topped by an entablature that includes a rosette frieze, pediments adorned with wreaths, and acroteria. Inside the aedicule, there is a square plinth with a wreath on each side, which likely served as the base for a funerary urn. This memorial is among the earliest in Toxteth Park Cemetery and highlights the continued use of Classical style at a time when Gothic styles were becoming more popular, notably without Christian references.
Local climate
Sir John Bent Mp Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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