Lady Marian Alford Memorial on South Corner at Entrance to Drive to Ashbridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Memorial.
Lady Marian Alford Memorial on South Corner at Entrance to Drive to Ashbridge
- WRENN ID
- late-window-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Lady Marian Alford Memorial on South Corner at Entrance to Drive to Ashbridge, Little Gaddesden
- OS grid reference
- SP 992 133
- Coordinates
- 51.8103, -0.56182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lady Marian Alford Memorial is located on the south corner at the entrance to the drive leading to Ashridge in Little Gaddesden. Erected in 1891, this memorial honors Lady Marian Alford, the mother of the 2nd and 3rd Earls Brownlow. It features a memorial cross, a drinking fountain, and a seat. The structure is made of white limestone and knapped flint, set on a stone radial platform that is enclosed by a stone seat.
The memorial includes a tall tapering Iona cross resting on a high square base with two steps. At the rear of the base is a small scallop drinking fountain, while the front features a large semi-circular drinking trough and a recessed dog trough. Both the front and rear faces of the cross are adorned with carved panels displaying interlace ornament and Pictish figures. An inscription on the larger trough reads, "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into Everlasting Life." Behind the cross is a large semi-circular continuous moulded stone seat, which includes a step, back, and bench ends.
Local climate
Lady Marian Alford Memorial on South Corner at Entrance to Drive to Ashbridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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