Monument to Thomas Helps East of St Leonards Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1998. Monument.
Monument to Thomas Helps East of St Leonards Church
- WRENN ID
- old-vestry-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North MP: Steve Reed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1998
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Thomas Helps East of St Leonards Church, Streatham High Road Sw16
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 717
- Coordinates
- 51.42962, -0.13109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Thomas Helps, located east of St Leonard's Church, is a chest tomb dating from 1842. It is made of limestone and features a rectangular shape with square projections at each corner. The tomb has a moulded plinth and plain side panels set within moulded recesses. At the corners, there are acanthus-decorated console brackets that support the cover stone, which has pedimented sides and gablets at the corners, all adorned with anthemion and floral volutes. The inscriptions on the east and west panels commemorate Thomas Helps, who died in 1842, his wife Ann, who died in 1851, and three of their sons, the most notable being Sir Arthur Helps, who died in 1875. The monument is set on a slab that once had iron railings, which are now missing. Sir Arthur Helps served as clerk of the privy council from 1860 to 1875 and was involved in preparing several volumes of Queen Victoria's writings and an edition of Prince Albert's speeches, in addition to being an author himself.
Local climate
Monument to Thomas Helps East of St Leonards Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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