Monument to Thomas Mears 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 Thomas Mears in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- solitary-rubble-rowan
- 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 Thomas Mears in Highgate (Western) Cemetery, Swain's Lane, London, N6 6PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 869
- Coordinates
- 51.56718, -0.14787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Thomas Mears, who died in 1861, is located in Highgate (Western) Cemetery. It is made of Portland stone and features a spire above a square base. The design includes pinnacled buttresses and pointed arch side panels that are decorated with tracery and ball flower enrichment. The monument was built by Davies, a builder from Belvedere Road, Lambeth.
Local climate
Monument to Thomas Mears 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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