Monument to Prince Lee Boo Approximately 10 Metres West of West Tower Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Monument to Prince Lee Boo Approximately 10 Metres West of West Tower Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- fossil-tower-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 351 798
- Coordinates
- 51.50132, -0.05432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Prince Lee Boo is a chest tomb with a related headstone, located approximately 10 meters west of the west tower of the Church of St Mary. It was erected in 1784 by the Honourable East India Company in memory of Prince Lee Boo from the Pelew Islands. The tomb is made of yellow brick and features a rectangular shape with a scalloped headstone made of Portland stone at one end, along with an inscribed Portland stone ledger. The monument commemorates Prince Lee Boo, whose father had shown kindness to the shipwrecked crew of the East Indiaman Antelope in 1738. Lee Boo returned to London with Captain Wilson of the Antelope, who is also commemorated on the headstone, and he died of smallpox. The inscription on the monument concludes with the poignant words, "Stop, reader, stop, let Nature shed a tear / A prince of mine, Lee Boo, lies buried here."
Local climate
Monument to Prince Lee Boo Approximately 10 Metres West of West Tower Church of St Mary 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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