Monument to Rebekah Horniman, 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 Rebekah Horniman, Camberwell Old Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- ruined-lantern-alder
- 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 Rebekah Horniman, Camberwell Old Cemetery, Forest Hill Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 349 741
- Coordinates
- 51.45034, -0.05925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Rebekah Horniman is located in Camberwell Old Cemetery and dates from around 1895. It commemorates Rebekah, the wife of FJ Horniman, a tea merchant and the founder of the Horniman Museum. The monument features a tapering stone stele topped with a moulded curved canopy, which supports a bronze tablet depicting a figure of an angel.
Local climate
Monument to Rebekah Horniman, Camberwell Old 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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