Monument on Afton Down is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Monument.
Monument on Afton Down
- WRENN ID
- tenth-postern-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument on Afton Down, A3055, Freshwater
- OS grid reference
- SZ 352 855
- Coordinates
- 50.66859, -1.5024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument on Afton Down, built around 1846, is a stone obelisk approximately 4 feet high dedicated to E.L.M. It is inscribed with a memorial message: "Erected in remembrance of a most dear and only child who was suddenly removed into eternity by a fall from the adjacent cliff on the rocks beneath 28th August 1846." Each face of the obelisk features a different biblical text, including: "Reader prepare to meet thy doom for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth," "Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life," "In the midst of life we are in death," and "He cometh forth like a flower and is cast down. He fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not."
Local climate
Monument on Afton Down receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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