Monument to General Sir James Affleck Baronet Adjacent to South Side of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. Monument.
Monument to General Sir James Affleck Baronet Adjacent to South Side of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- muffled-cloister-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 724 625
- Coordinates
- 52.23413, 0.52337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a limestone monument dedicated to General Sir James Affleck, Baronet, who died in 1833. It is located adjacent to the south side of the Church of St. Mary in Dalham. The monument features an obelisk on a square pedestal, which has a moulded cornice and plinth, and stands approximately 5 metres high. An inscription is carved on the south face of the monument. It is surrounded by an area of limestone paving slabs, and the kerb, which used to have iron railings set into it, extends from the south-west corner of the church tower to the south-west corner of the south aisle of St. Mary's Church.
Local climate
Monument to General Sir James Affleck Baronet Adjacent to South Side of Church of St Mary 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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