Lester Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Monument.
Lester Monument
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-latch-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Lester Monument, St John's Gardens
- OS grid reference
- SJ 348 907
- Coordinates
- 53.4092, -2.98145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lester Monument is a memorial dedicated to Canon T. Major Lester, who passed away in 1903. It was erected in 1907 and designed by George Frampton. The monument features a bronze figure of Lester standing and holding a child, set upon a square stone pedestal. Canon Lester was known for founding child charities in Liverpool.
Local climate
Lester Monument sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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