Holgate Monument is a Grade I listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. Monument.
Holgate Monument
- WRENN ID
- tall-hall-elder
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1966
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Holgate Monument, Brocklesby
- OS grid reference
- TA 139 111
- Coordinates
- 53.58468, -0.2803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Holgate Monument, built in 1785 by James Wyatt, is a Grade I listed structure located in Brocklesby Park. This monument is made of Coade stone and features a triangular pedestal with concave sides, supported by three tortoises and topped with an urn.
Two circular steps lead up to a double plinth with a gadrooned base, upon which the three tortoises stand. From these tortoises, a fluted concave base rises to the pedestal. One side of the pedestal has an inscription panel that reads: "Erected by the first Baron Yarborough. To the memory of George Holgate of Melton, a tenant and friend who as a mark of gratitude and regard bequeathed to him a small estate at Cadney and who deserves to be remembered in the class of farmers as a most excellent character, entirely free from affectation of anything above that respectable station in life to which he was so great a credit."
The other two sides of the pedestal feature panels depicting a mourning figure and a seated Anona holding ears of wheat. Above the pedestal is an entablature and blocking course that rises to the urn, which has a gadrooned base, a bent fluted upper part, and a flaring rim adorned with branches and foliage in bas relief.
Local climate
Holgate Monument receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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