Memorial to Richard Young is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1969. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Memorial to Richard Young
- WRENN ID
- high-lime-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1969
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Memorial to Richard Young, Lynn Road, Wisbech
- OS grid reference
- TF 465 100
- Coordinates
- 52.66849, 0.16508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Memorial to Richard Young, located on the south side of Lynn Road in Wisbech, is a Grade II listed structure. It commemorates Richard Young, who was born in 1809 and died in 1871, and was known as the greatest ship owner in Wisbech. The memorial was erected in 1872 and underwent restoration after sustaining damage from a gale in 1883. It was designed by J. Wallis Chapman of London. The memorial is constructed from pink granite with sandstone dressings. It features a column topped with a free Corinthian capital and a finial adorned with trefoiled panels, which is surmounted by an urn. The base is a square plinth with corner buttresses, and it is inscribed with the words 'Memorial to Richard Young'.
Local climate
Memorial to Richard Young 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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