Sculpture, Virginius and His Daughter, at East End of Terrace in Bretton Park, Approximately 300 Metres North of Bretton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1988. Sculpture. 1 related planning application.

Sculpture, Virginius and His Daughter, at East End of Terrace in Bretton Park, Approximately 300 Metres North of Bretton Hall

WRENN ID
scattered-buttress-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1988
Type
Sculpture
OS grid reference
SE 285 131
Coordinates
53.61379, -1.57024
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The sculpture "Virginius and his Daughter" is located at the east end of the terrace in Bretton Park, approximately 300 metres north of Bretton Hall. It was created in the mid-19th century by Patrick McDowell, a Royal Academician from London, and was purchased by Thomas Wentworth Beaumont. The sculpture is made of marble and depicts a robed warrior holding a dead woman in one arm, set on a small round plinth. It is signed by McDowell and was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Local climate

Sculpture, Virginius and His Daughter, at East End of Terrace in Bretton Park, Approximately 300 Metres North of Bretton Hall receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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