Monument to Doctor Rowland Taylor is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1972. Monument.
Monument to Doctor Rowland Taylor
- WRENN ID
- seventh-marble-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1972
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Doctor Rowland Taylor, Hadleigh
- OS grid reference
- TM 037 436
- Coordinates
- 52.05343, 0.9701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Dr. Rowland Taylor is a pyramidal stone erected in 1818, which may replace or supplement an earlier stone likely from the early 17th century. It is enclosed in iron railings and located about 30 yards from the main road, set within cultivated fields, as the common was enclosed in 1729. The monument features verses written by Dr. Nathan Drake painted on it. Dr. Taylor, born in the early 16th century, was chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer and was appointed by him to the rectory of Hadleigh. A Protestant, he was a victim of Marian persecution and was burned at the stake on Aldham Common in 1555.
Local climate
Monument to Doctor Rowland Taylor sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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