Memorial to Richard Vaughan Yates Facing Main Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Memorial.
Memorial to Richard Vaughan Yates Facing Main Entrance
- WRENN ID
- small-nave-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Memorial to Richard Vaughan Yates Facing Main Entrance, Princes Park
- OS grid reference
- SJ 366 884
- Coordinates
- 53.38937, -2.95383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a memorial to Richard Vaughan Yates, located facing the main entrance of Princes Park. It was constructed in 1858 and is made of polished red granite. The memorial features an obelisk that stands on a square base, with two round urns that serve as drinking fountains. Richard Vaughan Yates was the founder of the park.
Local climate
Memorial to Richard Vaughan Yates Facing Main Entrance 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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