Memorial to Dame Louisa Aldrich Blake in Tavistock Square Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Memorial.

Memorial to Dame Louisa Aldrich Blake in Tavistock Square Gardens

WRENN ID
standing-string-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1974
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
TQ 299 823
Coordinates
51.52471, -0.12818
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The memorial to Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake is located in Tavistock Square Gardens and was created in 1926. It features a semicircular stone seat and base designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. At the center of the seat back rises a stone column, which displays identical bronze busts of Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake on the front and back. The busts depict her holding a book and are accompanied by inscribed tablets detailing her career. On either side of the column, there are bronze representations of a serpent and staff.

Local climate

Memorial to Dame Louisa Aldrich Blake in Tavistock Square Gardens sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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