Monument to Thomas Humphreys, Nunhead Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Monument to Thomas Humphreys, Nunhead Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- fallen-pedestal-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Peckham MP: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Thomas Humphreys, Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 354 756
- Coordinates
- 51.46354, -0.05203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Thomas Humphreys, located in Nunhead Cemetery, is a funerary structure dating from around 1868. It commemorates Thomas Humphreys, who passed away in the same year. The monument is made of pink and grey granite and features a statue of Hope positioned atop a pink granite column, which is adorned with an anthemion-enriched capital.
Local climate
Monument to Thomas Humphreys, Nunhead Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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