York Cemetery Plot Number 11847 Gray Monument is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1997. Vault.
York Cemetery Plot Number 11847 Gray Monument
- WRENN ID
- cold-hinge-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1997
- Type
- Vault
- Address
- York Cemetery Plot Number 11847 Gray Monument, Cemetery Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 611 508
- Coordinates
- 53.94992, -1.06937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gray Monument is a family vault located in York Cemetery, designated as plot number 11847. The first burial in this vault was Alderman Jonathan Gray, who died on 11 December 1837. The vault is constructed from stone and is closed by a sloped cover that is inscribed with the names of Jonathan Gray, his widow Mary, who died in 1849, and other family members.
The vault features a crocketed octo-pyramidal canopy supported by cinquefoiled arches, which are adorned with crocketed ogee hoodmoulds. Each corner of the structure has paired angle buttresses that rise into crocketed pinnacles, and the canopy is topped with a crocket finial. Alderman Gray was a founding member and the first Chairman of the York Public Cemetery Company. Although he passed away in Hastings and was buried there, his monument, one of the earliest in York Cemetery, is depicted on an isometric plan from 1842.
Local climate
York Cemetery Plot Number 11847 Gray Monument sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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