Monument to Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy in All Saints' Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1995. Monument.
Monument to Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy in All Saints' Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- carved-corridor-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North MP: Steve Reed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1995
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy in All Saints' Churchyard, Church of All Saints, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, SE19 3EP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 331 697
- Coordinates
- 51.41128, -0.08715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy is located in All Saints' Churchyard and dates from around 1865. It features a cast-iron railed enclosure with spear rails and dog rails set on a stone plinth. The headstone has a curved top and includes a roundel with a cross held by an anchor. The footstone, replaced in 1985, acknowledges Fitzroy as the first head of the Meteorological Office, which he established in 1854. Fitzroy, who lived from 1805 to 1865, was the captain of the 'Beagle' during Charles Darwin's first voyage from 1831 to 1836 and made significant contributions to meteorology. He also served as the Governor of New Zealand from 1843 to 1845. His wife, Maria Isabella, who died in 1889, and their daughter, Laura Maria Elizabeth Fitzroy, who died in 1943, are also buried at this site.
Local climate
Monument to Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy in All Saints' Churchyard 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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