Monument to Sir Henry Bishop, Central Avenue, Plot E7 is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1993. A 19th century Monument.
Monument to Sir Henry Bishop, Central Avenue, Plot E7
- WRENN ID
- eastward-ashlar-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Finchley and Golders Green MP: Sarah Sackman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1993
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Sir Henry Bishop, Central Avenue, Plot E7, East End Road, N2 0RZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 259 895
- Coordinates
- 51.59071, -0.18311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Sir Henry Bishop, located on Central Avenue in Plot E7, was erected in memory of the musician who lived from 1786 to 1855. It is made of polished pink granite and features a bronze portrait medallion. The structure includes a stone base and four small obelisks, topped by a moulded and battered monument. Sir Henry Bishop was a professor of music at Oxford and a prolific composer of operas that are now largely forgotten.
Local climate
Monument to Sir Henry Bishop, Central Avenue, Plot E7 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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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