Monument 10 Yards to East of Church of St John to Victims of Mill Fire at Colne Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Monument.
Monument 10 Yards to East of Church of St John to Victims of Mill Fire at Colne Bridge
- WRENN ID
- dark-pier-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SE 179 172
- Coordinates
- 53.65114, -1.73047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a memorial column located 10 yards east of the Church of St. John, commemorating the victims of a mill fire at Colne Bridge. It was dated 1821 and restored in 1969. The column is made of ashlar and is very short, featuring a dentilled capital topped with a crest of foliage, standing on a square ashlar plinth with a frieze.
One side of the column is inscribed in capital letters: "To commemorate the dreadful fate of seventeen children who fell unhappy victims to a raging fire at Mr. Atkinson's factory, Colne Bridge. Feb. 14th 1818. This monument was erected by voluntary contribution MDCCCXXI." Another side lists the names and ages of the victims, all girls aged between 9 and 18 years. A third side bears the inscription: "Near this place lie what remained of the bodies of seventeen children, a striking and awful instance of the uncertainty of life and the vanity of human attainments." The fourth side features a poem.
Local climate
Monument 10 Yards to East of Church of St John to Victims of Mill Fire at Colne Bridge receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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