Monument to Battle of Wakefield to East of Manygates School is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1979. Monument.
Monument to Battle of Wakefield to East of Manygates School
- WRENN ID
- grey-steel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1979
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Battle of Wakefield to East of Manygates School, Manygates Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 338 186
- Coordinates
- 53.66333, -1.48876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to the Battle of Wakefield, located to the east of Manygates School on Manygates Lane, was built in 1897 by W T Thresh of Wakefield. It features an octagonal column on a plinth, topped with gabled arcading beneath a short spire. The arcading includes figures and symbols in its panels. An inscription on the plinth reads: "Richard Plantagenet fell here December 30 1460."
Local climate
Monument to Battle of Wakefield to East of Manygates School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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