Driver Memorial Approximately 10 Metres West of Church of St Mark is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Driver Memorial Approximately 10 Metres West of Church of St Mark
- WRENN ID
- knotted-tallow-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SE 294 351
- Coordinates
- 53.81211, -1.55378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Driver Memorial, located approximately 10 meters west of the Church of St Mark, was erected around 1859. It is made of stone and pink marble. The memorial features a square low curb with remnants of a cast-iron rail, a stepped plinth with an inscription on the east side, and an entablature and cornice adorned with egg-and-dart moulding. It is topped by a stone canopy supported by four squat marble shafts, with a square finial above. The memorial honors Richard Driver of Bagbie Lodge, who passed away in 1859. The inscription reads: "FOR MANY YEARS MERCHANT OF THIS TOWN,/ WHO BY STRICT INTEGRITY, AND PUNCTUALITY/ IN BUSINESS, DESERVED AND WON THE CONFIDENCE/ OF HIS EQUALS, AND IN HIS DEATH, BY HIS/ LIBERALITY, EARNED THE BLESSING OF THE POOR."
Local climate
Driver Memorial Approximately 10 Metres West of Church of St Mark 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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