Monument at NGR TL8754982673, 100 metres south of Friary House (Friary House not included) is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1951. Monument.
Monument at NGR TL8754982673, 100 metres south of Friary House (Friary House not included)
- WRENN ID
- winter-solder-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1951
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 875 826
- Coordinates
- 52.40993, 0.75599
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument, located 100 metres south of Friary House in Thetford, is a Grade II listed structure dating from 1807. It commemorates the site of an Augustinian Friary. The monument features a rectangular stone plinth that supports an urn adorned with swags. The urn has a gadrooned neck, and the plinth bears an inscription that reads: "IN VENERATION OF THIS CONSECRATED PLACE AND OF THESE ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS (i.e., bodies found in vault) THIS ALTAR TOMB WAS ERECTED BY GEORGE BEAUCHAMP ESQ AD 1807."
Local climate
Monument at NGR TL8754982673, 100 metres south of Friary House (Friary House not included) 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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