Wotton Monuments in All Saints Churchyard (35 Metres to East of Church) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Monument.
Wotton Monuments in All Saints Churchyard (35 Metres to East of Church)
- WRENN ID
- rough-loggia-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 073 024
- Coordinates
- 51.71079, -0.44734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wotton Monument, located 35 meters east of All Saints Church in Kings Langley, is a Grade II listed structure dating from 1802. It commemorates Richard Emmerton Wotton, a surgeon. The monument is made of white freestone and features a large tomb chest design. It has reeded corner uprights, a moulded base, and reeding along the edge of the slab. Each face of the tomb chest is adorned with panels that have concave quadrant corners, with the primary inscription found on the north face.
Local climate
Wotton Monuments in All Saints Churchyard (35 Metres to East of Church) 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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