Thomas Pennington Memorial approximately 145m south of main entrance at Toxteth Park Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Thomas Pennington Memorial approximately 145m south of main entrance at Toxteth Park Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- strange-wall-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SJ 376 889
- Coordinates
- 53.39394, -2.93982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thomas Pennington Memorial, located approximately 145 meters south of the main entrance at Toxteth Park Cemetery in Liverpool, is a funerary monument dated 1886 dedicated to Thomas Pennington. It is made of white marble with a granite base and features an eclectic style that is predominantly Classical. The monument has a stepped granite base and an inscribed plinth that supports a panelled pedestal with a plinth and cornice.
On the west side, there is a sculptured figure of an angel holding a memorial scroll, set within a moulded doorway that contains panelled doors. Above this doorway is an inscribed lintel with a dove perched on it. The doorway leads into a tall sarcophagus that is richly decorated with a full entablature, acroteria, and masks. The west side of the sarcophagus features a pedimented panel that includes the date, a festoon, and a portrait medallion. This monument is exceptional, adorned with rich symbolic ornamentation, much of which is not Christian, and is highly idiosyncratic.
Local climate
Thomas Pennington Memorial approximately 145m south of main entrance 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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