Statue of John Biggs is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Statue.
Statue of John Biggs
- WRENN ID
- wild-transept-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Statue
- Address
- Statue of John Biggs, Welford Place, City of Leicester
- OS grid reference
- SK 587 041
- Coordinates
- 52.63181, -1.13368
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Statue of John Biggs is a late 19th-century bronze figure commemorating John Biggs, who lived from 1801 to 1871. It stands on a polished pink granite circular pedestal that features a cornice and an octagonal plinth. The statue is located on a traffic island at the junction of Welford Road, Newarke Street, Pocklingtons Walk, and Welford Place.
Local climate
Statue of John Biggs receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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