Monument to Joseph Allmond Cropper, Kensal Green Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 2001. Monument.

Monument to Joseph Allmond Cropper, Kensal Green Cemetery

WRENN ID
stony-steeple-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 June 2001
Type
Monument
Address
Monument to Joseph Allmond Cropper, Kensal Green Cemetery, Tomb of Joseph Allmond Cropper, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA
OS grid reference
TQ 232 825
Coordinates
51.52847, -0.22398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The monument to Joseph Allmond Cropper, located in Kensal Green Cemetery, is a Grade II listed structure made of Portland stone and features pink Peterhead granite shafts. It commemorates Joseph Allmond Cropper, who died around 1870. The lower part of the monument is a tall square pedestal that is blind, with cusped arched openings on each side beneath a corbel table. The east and west sides display relief sculptures depicting acts of mercy, inscribed with the phrases 'I was sick and ye visited me' and 'A stranger and ye took me in' from Matthew 25:35-36. The granite shafts are positioned at the corners. The upper section features a statue of Christ the Good Shepherd, which is set within a tall pyramidal canopy supported by four pink granite colonettes, each face of the canopy has a trefoil-headed opening.

Local climate

Monument to Joseph Allmond Cropper, Kensal Green Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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