Baxter Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. Monument.
Baxter Monument
- WRENN ID
- rough-jamb-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Baxter Monument, Ercall Magna
- OS grid reference
- SJ 613 199
- Coordinates
- 52.77537, -2.5747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baxter Monument is a likely late 19th-century squat obelisk situated on a plinth. It features a bronze shield with an inscription that reads: "Richard Baxter great divine author and eminent citizen of the 17th century. Son of Richard Baxter and Beatrice nee Adney born here in Rowton AD 1615. Died in London 1691." Richard Baxter, who lived from 1615 to 1691, was a Presbyterian theologian believed to have resided in a house on the site of Baxter House in Rowton.
Local climate
Baxter Monument receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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