Monument to Charles Waters, Camberwell Old Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1992. Monument.

Monument to Charles Waters, Camberwell Old Cemetery

WRENN ID
western-alcove-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Lewisham West and East Dulwich MP: Ellie Reeves (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 May 1992
Type
Monument
Address
Monument to Charles Waters, Camberwell Old Cemetery, Forest Hill Road
OS grid reference
TQ 349 741
Coordinates
51.44998, -0.0593
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a monument to Charles Waters located in Camberwell Old Cemetery, built around 1910. It features a marble sculpture of a seated woman holding a book or Bible in her lap, embracing a small child, set on a battered plinth. Charles Waters, who lived from 1839 to 1910, was the founder of the International Bible Reading Association, which had over 1 million members at the time of his death.

Local climate

Monument to Charles Waters, Camberwell Old Cemetery 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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