Monument to Dickens Family in Highgate (Western) Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Monument.
Monument to Dickens Family in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- woven-roof-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Dickens Family in Highgate (Western) Cemetery, Swain's Lane, London, N6 6PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 870
- Coordinates
- 51.568, -0.14973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to the Dickens family is located in Highgate (Western) Cemetery and dates from around 1870. It features a large inscribed stone slab set within neo-Classical railings, with a smaller early 20th-century slab on top that repeats the inscription. This monument commemorates Charles Dickens and his family. It holds historical significance not only for its connection to the renowned 19th-century English novelist, who is buried in Westminster Abbey, but also for its association with his family, including his sons, who were named after prominent literary figures such as Walter Landor Dickens and Alfred Tennyson Dickens.
Local climate
Monument to Dickens Family 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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