Harvey Monument 20 Yards South West of South Porch of Church of St Helen is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1986. Monument.
Harvey Monument 20 Yards South West of South Porch of Church of St Helen
- WRENN ID
- mired-courtyard-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 735 766
- Coordinates
- 51.46178, 0.49724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Harvey Monument, located 20 yards southwest of the south porch of the Church of St. Helen, is a stone monument dated 1814. It features a stone pedestal that supports an aedicular upper stage, which includes a relief of a mourning figure and inscriptions framed by pilasters and pediments. The monument is topped by a draped stump of a column and is inscribed in memory of Frederick Klentz Harvey, who died in 1814.
Local climate
Harvey Monument 20 Yards South West of South Porch of Church of St Helen 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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Similar buildings
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- 1 Elizabeth Harvey Monument in the Churchyard Approximately 1m South of Nave to Church of St Martin
- 2 George Harvey Monument, in the Churchyard, Immediately South of the South Transept of the Church of St Mary, St Cuthberga and All Saints
- 3 Harvey Memorial About 15 Metres North of North Aisle of Church of St Peter
- 4 Monument to Harvey Brown in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- 5 Thomas Harvey Memorial Appproximately 20 Yards South of West Tower of Church of St Mary and St Lawrence
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