Burnside Monument, Brompton Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 2011. Monument.
Burnside Monument, Brompton Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- vast-porch-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 2011
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Burnside Monument, Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, London, Sw10
- OS grid reference
- TQ 255 780
- Coordinates
- 51.48727, -0.19313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Burnside Monument is a large memorial located in Brompton Cemetery, made of grey granite. It measures approximately 1.2 meters wide by 1.5 meters high and is set on a low plinth with a base that includes contiguous seats. The end blocks of the seats serve as stops for the kerb of a ledger stone pavement in front of the headstone, with two slabs inscribed 'ALLAN' and 'IRIS'. The headstone features a relief carving of a neo-Byzantine angel figure, with its hands resting on a Latin cross. The plinth is adorned with deeply incised block capitals that read 'BURNSIDE', while the base below commemorates Allan Eaton Meldrum Burnside (1898-1937) and his sister Margaret Allan Iris Burnside (1894-1915). They were the children of Thomas David Meldrum Burnside (1835-1900) and Josephine Smith Eaton Burnside (1866-1943), and the grandchildren of Timothy Eaton (1834-1907) and Margaret Eaton (née Beattie, 1841-1933) from Toronto, Canada.
Local climate
Burnside Monument, Brompton 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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