Grave memorial to George Thwaites and family members is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 2022. Grave memorial.
Grave memorial to George Thwaites and family members
- WRENN ID
- late-timber-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 2022
- Type
- Grave memorial
- OS grid reference
- SE 293 348
- Coordinates
- 53.80883, -1.55653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The grave memorial to George Thwaites was created in 1855 and includes later inscriptions for other family members. It is made of fine-grained sandstone and features a large plinth that supports a high-relief sculpture of a draped mourning female figure leaning against a broken pillar. This sculpture is set within a round-arched frame, which has a garlanded shield at its top, adorned with a single five-pointed star. The plinth bears the following inscription: ‘IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF / GEORGE THWAITES / OF THE TOWN INNKEEPER. / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTR 18TH 1855, / IN THE 44TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. / ALSO ISABELLA, HIS WIFE, / DIED AUGUST 11TH 1882, AGED 73 YEARS. / ALSO GEORGE THWAITES, (IRON MERCHANT) / THEIR YOUNGEST SON, / DIED OCTOBER 28TH 1903, AGED 56 YEARS. / ALSO OUR DEAR MOTHER MARIE HOLT THWAITES, / WIFE OF THE ABOVE GEORGE THWAITES, / WHO DIED JANY 31ST 1934, IN HER 73RD YEAR. / NEARER MY GOD TO THEE’.
Local climate
Grave memorial to George Thwaites and family members receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 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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