Monument, 19 Yards North of North Aisle, Commemorating William Baker and Garrad Baker is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Monument.
Monument, 19 Yards North of North Aisle, Commemorating William Baker and Garrad Baker
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-terrace-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 708 069
- Coordinates
- 51.73549, 0.47227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 19th-century stone monument, located 19 yards north of the north aisle, commemorates William Baker, Ann Baker, and Garrad Baker. It features a truncated obelisk design with sunk-chamfered angles, standing on a base.
Local climate
Monument, 19 Yards North of North Aisle, Commemorating William Baker and Garrad Baker sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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