Agnes and John Rowe Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. Funerary monument.

Agnes and John Rowe Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery

WRENN ID
grey-brick-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Funerary monument
Address
Agnes and John Rowe Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Smithdown Road
OS grid reference
SJ 376 889
Coordinates
53.39384, -2.93873
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Agnes and John Rowe Obelisk is a funerary monument located in Toxteth Park Cemetery, built in 1875 to commemorate JJ Rowe and Agnes Rowe, who died in 1888. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and designed in the Gothic style. The monument features a chamfered square base with two steps, which supports an octagonal broach spire topped with a cross. The spire is adorned with a quatrefoil band and has eight enriched lucarnes, each covering an inscribed tablet. The obelisk is enclosed on three sides by a chamfered kerb, with an iron railing on pinnacles.

Local climate

Agnes and John Rowe Obelisk 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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