Cawthorn Monument 5 Metres West of Porch of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. Monument.
Cawthorn Monument 5 Metres West of Porch of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- sacred-nave-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SE 421 220
- Coordinates
- 53.69352, -1.3628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cawthorn Monument, located 5 metres west of the porch of the Church of All Saints, is a monumental slab dating from around 1724. It commemorates Mary, the wife of Alvera Cawthorn, who died in 1724. The monument is made of sandstone and features a rectangular shape with a running vine border. It has a deep central band decorated with a large heart formed by two scrolls, flanked by raised lettering that reads "17 24" and "M C". Below this band, there is an inscription that states: "Her body here rests Her soul now sings The praises of the King of Kings."
Local climate
Cawthorn Monument 5 Metres West of Porch of Church of All Saints receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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