Bendigo Monument in St Mary's Rest Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Monument. 1 related planning application.

Bendigo Monument in St Mary's Rest Garden

WRENN ID
long-facade-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Nottingham
Constituency
Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1995
Type
Monument
Address
Bendigo Monument in St Mary's Rest Garden, Bath Street, City of Nottingham
OS grid reference
SK 577 402
Coordinates
52.95658, -1.14126
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bendigo Monument is a funeral monument located in St Mary's Rest Garden, dating from 1880. It commemorates William Abednigo Thompson, who was born around 1816 and died in 1880. The monument is made of white marble and features a prostrate figure of a lion on a rock-faced base, which holds an inscribed scroll in one paw. The rectangular pedestal includes an inscription and a moulded plinth. William Thompson, known as Bendigo, was a local professional boxer who gained celebrity status and later became a preacher.

Local climate

Bendigo Monument in St Mary's Rest Garden sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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