Duke of Argyll's Monument is a Grade II* listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1968. A Georgian Monument. 1 related planning application.
Duke of Argyll's Monument
- WRENN ID
- silent-doorway-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1968
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Duke of Argyll's Monument, Stainborough Park
- OS grid reference
- SE 322 024
- Coordinates
- 53.51749, -1.51517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Duke of Argyll's Monument is a monumental column with a statue, dated 1744, designed by Joseph Bower, the estate mason, for the Second Earl of Strafford in memory of the Duke of Argyll. It is constructed from ashlar sandstone and features a fluted Corinthian column set on a pedestal, topped by a female statue. The monument has a moulded base and a square die inscribed with the following text: 'TO THE MEMORY / OF HIS GRACE / JOHN DUKE OF ARGYLL / AND GREENWICH / who died October ye 4th 1743 / This Collumn was Dedicated in / 1744'; it also includes a cornice. The statue represents a woman in flowing robes, originally intended to symbolize Fame, but has been variously described as Victory, Minerva, or, in a previous listing, Britannia.
The monument was commissioned following the marriage of William, the Second Earl of Strafford, to Lady Anne Campbell, the daughter of the Duke of Argyll, and it serves as the tallest of his landscape ornaments.
Local climate
Duke of Argyll's Monument receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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