Figure of Medici Venus, at Monks Garden, at Anglesey Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Statue.

Figure of Medici Venus, at Monks Garden, at Anglesey Abbey

WRENN ID
slow-moat-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Cambridgeshire
Constituency
Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 June 1984
Type
Statue
Address
Figure of Medici Venus, at Monks Garden, at Anglesey Abbey, Quy Road, Lode
OS grid reference
TL 530 622
Coordinates
52.23747, 0.23923
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Figure of Medici Venus, located at Monks Garden in Anglesey Abbey, is a statue from the 19th century. It is a bronze copy of the Medici Venus and stands on a pedestal made of white and rouge de Languedoc marble.

Local climate

Figure of Medici Venus, at Monks Garden, at Anglesey Abbey sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% 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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