Monument to Brodie McGhie Wilcox is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 2011. Monument.
Monument to Brodie McGhie Wilcox
- WRENN ID
- graven-lime-equinox
- 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 Brodie McGhie Wilcox, Highgate (West) Cemetery, Swains Lane, Greater London, N6 6PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 871
- Coordinates
- 51.56861, -0.14904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Brodie McGhie Wilcox is a tall sandstone obelisk with a pyramidal top, set on a battered pedestal featuring raised panels, which in turn rests on a stepped granite plinth. An armorial cartouche is affixed to the obelisk. The pedestal bears an inscription that reads: ‘In Affectionate Remembrance of Brodie McGhie Willcox Esq. of Portman Square London. For 15 years one of the representatives for the Borough of Southampton Hants, who departed this life the 6th of November 1862, in his seventy eighth year. Deservedly Lamented.' Additional inscriptions on the pedestal honor his wife Sophia Ann (died 1876), his daughters Ellen (died 1871), Marion Elizabeth (died 1903), and Rose Maria (died 1909), as well as his son Brodie Augustus (died 1901).
Local climate
Monument to Brodie McGhie Wilcox 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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