Henderson Memorial About 10 Metres North West of Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. A C20 Monument.
Henderson Memorial About 10 Metres North West of Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- stark-hammer-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 094 021
- Coordinates
- 51.70783, -0.41729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Henderson Memorial is a chest-tomb located about 10 meters northwest of the Church of St. Lawrence in Abbots Langley. It commemorates Mrs. Elvira Henderson, who died in 1901. The tomb is made of ashlar and features ornamental copper. It has a long, low rectangular shape designed in an Art Nouveau style. The base is moulded in copper, adorned with stylized trees that rise at angles along the longer sides, leading up to a projecting capping that displays bold raised lettering. The upper stone cap is decorated with foliate ornamentation.
Local climate
Henderson Memorial About 10 Metres North West of Church of St Lawrence 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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