Whistler Memorial Adjacent to South Side of Powell's Walk, Approximately 120 Metres West of Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. Monument.
Whistler Memorial Adjacent to South Side of Powell's Walk, Approximately 120 Metres West of Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- strange-courtyard-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hounslow
- Constituency
- Hammersmith and Chiswick MP: Andy Slaughter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 214 777
- Coordinates
- 51.48551, -0.25238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whistler Memorial is a chest tomb located adjacent to the south side of Powell's Walk, approximately 120 meters west of the Church of St Nicholas. Designed by E W Godwin, it commemorates the artist James McNeil Whistler, who died in 1903, and his wife Beatrix, who died in 1896. The memorial features a bronze chest tomb set on a stone ashlar pedestal. It has a central inscription panel flanked by pairs of fluted Ionic pilasters, which are decorated with festoons of husks. Originally, each cornice had a gilt bronze angel, but these have been stolen. The frieze displays bayleaf festoons beneath an Ionic cornice, and similar Ionic pilasters flank a laurel wreath on each end panel.
Local climate
Whistler Memorial Adjacent to South Side of Powell's Walk, Approximately 120 Metres West of Church of St Nicholas sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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