Monument to Alfred Stevens in Highgate (Western) Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. A Mid-Victorian Monument.
Monument to Alfred Stevens in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- ruined-render-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Mid-Victorian
- Address
- Monument to Alfred Stevens in Highgate (Western) Cemetery, Swain's Lane, London, N6 6PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 869
- Coordinates
- 51.56708, -0.14978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Alfred Stevens, who died in 1875, is located in Highgate (Western) Cemetery. It is designed in a coved Renaissance style and made of Portland stone, featuring fish-scale ornamentation. The monument is topped with a cast-iron slab that has raised lettering. The epitaph describes Stevens as an 'ARTIST AND SCULPTOR' and notes that he created the monument to the Duke of Wellington in St Paul's Cathedral. Stevens was a prominent figure in the Renaissance style during mid-Victorian England, and the Wellington monument, completed in 1912, is considered his masterpiece. This sarcophagus is a version of the one found within the Wellington monument and was made by Stevens's assistant.
Local climate
Monument to Alfred Stevens in Highgate (Western) Cemetery 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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