Beckett Street Cemetery Monument to Sarah Kidney is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1986. Monument.
Beckett Street Cemetery Monument to Sarah Kidney
- WRENN ID
- lunar-cellar-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds South MP: Hilary Benn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SE 318 345
- Coordinates
- 53.80626, -1.51768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Sarah Kidney, located in Beckett Street Cemetery, is a memorial dating from around 1895. It is constructed from gritstone ashlar and features a square, three-stepped base with a plinth block. Atop the base stands a miniature square-sectioned tapering industrial chimney, approximately 3 meters high, made of rock-faced stone and topped with a cornice and cap. The plinth and base are inscribed to commemorate Sarah Kidney, who died in 1895 at the age of 59, as well as Thomas Kidney, described as 'the oldest steeplejack in England', who died in 1914 at the age of 82, along with other members of his family.
Local climate
Beckett Street Cemetery Monument to Sarah Kidney receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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