Memorial to Wt Stead, Temple Pier is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Memorial. 3 related planning applications.

Memorial to Wt Stead, Temple Pier

WRENN ID
distant-solder-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1970
Type
Memorial
Address
Memorial to Wt Stead, Temple Pier, Victoria Embankment Sw1, City of Westminster, WC2R 2PN
OS grid reference
TQ 310 807
Coordinates
51.51082, -0.11259
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The memorial to W. T. Stead is located at Temple Pier on Victoria Embankment in Westminster. It was created in 1913 by Sir George Frampton and features a bronze tablet. The tablet includes a portrait relief of Stead, along with two small figures representing Fortitude and Sympathy. It is fixed to the upstream roadside pier of Temple Pier.

Local climate

Memorial to Wt Stead, Temple Pier 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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