Monument to Victims of Lundhill Colliery Explosion, Situated Approximately 55 Metres to South East of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1985. Monument.
Monument to Victims of Lundhill Colliery Explosion, Situated Approximately 55 Metres to South East of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- haunted-hammer-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley South MP: Stephanie Peacock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SE 419 042
- Coordinates
- 53.53357, -1.36892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a monument dedicated to the victims of the Lundhill Colliery explosion, located approximately 55 metres southeast of the Church of All Saints. It was constructed around 1857 by W. Oxley of Barnsley and is made of fine sandstone ashlar. The monument features a stepped base and a moulded plinth supporting a square, corniced column topped with a tall obelisk. The column has raised panels that display biblical inscriptions, and on the south side, there is an inscription that reads:
'ERECTED / TO COMMEMORATE THE / LUNDHILL EXPLOSION / OF FEBRUARY 19th 1857, / IN WHICH / ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE / MEN AND BOYS LOST THEIR LIVES / OF WHOSE BODIES / ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX / ARE BURIED / NEAR THIS PLACE'.
Local climate
Monument to Victims of Lundhill Colliery Explosion, Situated Approximately 55 Metres to South East of Church of All Saints receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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