Monument to Stephen Geary is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 2011. Monument.
Monument to Stephen Geary
- WRENN ID
- silver-pilaster-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 2011
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Stephen Geary, Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, Greater London, N6 6PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 870
- Coordinates
- 51.56784, -0.14875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Stephen Geary is a low headstone with a scalloped and rounded top. The inscription states: ‘Sacred to the memory of Stephen Geary Esq. architect and founder of this cemetery who departed this life August 28th 1854 in the 57th year of his age’. Below this, there is an additional inscription that commemorates his wife Sarah, who died in 1867.
Local climate
Monument to Stephen Geary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Tomb of Alfred Robert Freebairn in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- Tomb of Sarah Godbee and family in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- Tomb of Thomas Charles Druce in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- Monument to Matthew Cotes Wyatt in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- Tomb of Joseph Edwards in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
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