Monument to Sir John Austen Member of Parliament About 10 Metres South West of Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. Monument.
Monument to Sir John Austen Member of Parliament About 10 Metres South West of Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- proud-column-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 222 011
- Coordinates
- 51.69608, -0.23312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a large churchyard memorial dedicated to Sir John Austen, a Member of Parliament who died in 1742, and his sister Arabella Austen, who died in 1714. The monument is made of ashlar and consists of three square stages. The bottom stage features a moulded cornice and base, with an inscription on the west side. The second stage is smaller and has a cornice along with four recessed panels; it displays skulls and crossed bones on the east side, an empty cartouche on the west, and is also empty on the north and south sides. The considerably smaller third stage is adorned with four scrolled angle buttresses and has a cornice that extends over the buttresses at the angles. At the top, the monument is crowned with a bulbous ball finial.
Local climate
Monument to Sir John Austen Member of Parliament About 10 Metres South West of Church of St Giles sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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