Monument to George Edwards Hering is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 2011. Monument.
Monument to George Edwards Hering
- WRENN ID
- wild-porch-weasel
- 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 George Edwards Hering, Highgate (Western) Cemetery, Swains Lane, Greater London, N6 6PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 869
- Coordinates
- 51.56704, -0.14887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to George Edwards Hering is a headstone featuring a shaped top with a circular recess that holds a high relief carved profile bust of George Hering. The leaded inscription identifies him as a landscape painter and also commemorates his wife, Catherine. At the foot of the monument, there is a bas-relief carving of an artist's palette and brushes.
Local climate
Monument to George Edwards Hering 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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