Hoy's Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. Monument.
Hoy's Monument
- WRENN ID
- steep-chancel-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1967
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Hoy's Monument, Chale
- OS grid reference
- SZ 495 787
- Coordinates
- 50.60681, -1.30046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hoy's Monument is a memorial built in 1814, with an additional tablet added in 1857. It features a large tapering Tuscan column made of tooled ashlar stone, topped with a cornice and a large ball finial. The column stands on a substantial tooled ashlar plinth that has a moulded cornice and base. One side of the plinth bears the inscription commemorating the visit of His Majesty Alexander I, Emperor of all the Russias, to Great Britain in 1814. It states that the pillar was erected by Michael Hoy in remembrance of his many happy years in his dominions. Michael Hoy was the owner of the Hermitage, of which only the stables remain from that time. The opposite side of the plinth features an inscription dedicated to the brave men of the allied armies who fell at the Battle of Alma and during the siege of Sebastopol in 1857, erected by William Henry Dawes, a former Lieutenant of HM 22nd Regiment. The monument serves as a prominent landmark for both land and sea.
Local climate
Hoy's Monument receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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