Godfrey Monument in St Mary's Churchyard is a Grade II* listed building in the Redbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1979. A Georgian Monument.
Godfrey Monument in St Mary's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- winter-tracery-hyssop
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Redbridge
- Constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green MP: Sir Iain Duncan Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1979
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Godfrey Monument in St Mary's Churchyard, Church of St Mary, High Road, London, E18 2PA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 399 907
- Coordinates
- 51.59778, 0.01986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Godfrey Monument in St Mary's Churchyard is a tall Corinthian column, designed by Sir Robert Taylor around 1742. It stands approximately 30 feet high and is made of whitened jasper. The monument features a square plinth, a square block of entablature, and an urn on top. It commemorates Edward Godfrey, who died in 1742 and was an early patron of Taylor. The construction of the monument cost £1,500.
Local climate
Godfrey Monument in St Mary's Churchyard sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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