Monument to John Clare is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. Monument.

Monument to John Clare

WRENN ID
last-passage-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1955
Type
Monument
Address
Monument to John Clare, West Street, Helpston, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TF 121 054
Coordinates
52.63534, -0.34418
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The monument to John Clare is a Grade II listed structure erected in 1864 in memory of the poet John Clare, who was born and buried in the village. This Victorian Gothic monument is made of ashlar stone. It features a square pedestal set on a ramped base, with a diagonally placed pier above that has buttresses. At the top, there is a circular shaft with a conical top and a finial. The pedestal is decorated with quatrefoil panels that display quotations from Clare's poems.

Local climate

Monument to John Clare 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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