Monument to William Tyler in Abney Park Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1997. Monument.
Monument to William Tyler in Abney Park Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- broken-shingle-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP: Ms Diane Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1997
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to William Tyler in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 333 867
- Coordinates
- 51.56368, -0.07792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Monument to William Tyler is located in Abney Park Cemetery and dates from 1909. It is made of white marble and pink granite. The monument features a canopy topped with a cross, supported by four square colonnettes, resting on a square base of pink granite. Inside the canopy, there is a sculpture depicting a policeman's helmet, cape, and truncheon placed on a miniature sarcophagus. The inscription reads 'PC 403 of the North Division'. William Tyler was a policeman who was murdered during the 'Tottenham Outrage' while attempting to arrest an anarchist.
Local climate
Monument to William Tyler in Abney Park 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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