Quilter Monument in Churchyard of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Monument.
Quilter Monument in Churchyard of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- fallow-pediment-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Quilter Monument in Churchyard of St Mary, the Street, Bawdsey
- OS grid reference
- TM 346 401
- Coordinates
- 52.00975, 1.41742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quilter Monument, located in the churchyard of St Mary in Bawdsey, is a chest tomb dating from around 1911. It is made of white ashlar and designed in the English Baroque style. The tomb is raised on an earth mound and can be accessed by two steps. It has a rectangular shape with diagonally set scroll buttresses at the corners, featuring acanthus decoration. Swags adorn all four sides, with winged cherubs' heads positioned at the upper center of each of the longer faces. The eastern, shorter face displays a coat of arms. The inscription on the west face commemorates William Cuthbert Quilter, the first baronet, who lived from 1814 to 1911, along with his wife, Mary Anne, who died in 1927, and their son, Roger Cuthbert Quilter, a composer who passed away in 1953. Additional inscriptions along the sides honor the second Baronet, who died in 1952, the third Baronet, who died in 1959, and other family members.
Local climate
Quilter Monument in Churchyard of St Mary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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