Garden urn at Beechwood Park School (40 metres to north of main entrance) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Garden urn.
Garden urn at Beechwood Park School (40 metres to north of main entrance)
- WRENN ID
- scattered-cellar-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- Garden urn
- OS grid reference
- TL 045 145
- Coordinates
- 51.81963, -0.48477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden urn at Beechwood Park School, located 40 metres north of the main entrance, dates from around 1860. It is stamped with the name 'J M BLASHFIELD/MILLWALL & PADDINGTON/LONDON'. The urn is made of light buff terracotta and is set on a reused 18th-century Portland stone pedestal.
The cubic stone pedestal stands about 1 metre high and features a moulded base. The large terracotta urn has a bowl approximately 1 metre in diameter, complete with its own square plinth and stem, which is decorated in relief with lotus leaves. The bowl has scallop decoration with tendrils and an acanthus wreathed rim. This urn is one of a set of four identical urns, with those on the east front likely installed when the drive was set back from the entrance door in 1860. J M Blashfield, who operated between 1830 and 1870, acquired some of Coade's moulds in 1836 and established a terracotta works, creating urns for the Royal Palaces and the Royal Mausoleum at Windsor, as well as various statues and architectural ornaments.
Local climate
Garden urn at Beechwood Park School (40 metres to north of main entrance) 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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