Monument to William Willats, About 5 Metres West of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Monument.
Monument to William Willats, About 5 Metres West of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- over-bastion-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TR 216 467
- Coordinates
- 51.17669, 1.16931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to William Willats, who died in 1867, is located about 5 metres west of the Church of St Mary. It is made of stone and features an iron railing. The monument has a single stepped base that supports a heavy and low iron rail, which is topped with distorted acorn finials. The design resembles a Greek sarcophagus, featuring a tomb chest with a triglyph and metope frieze, along with pillow-like scrolls on the top slab.
Local climate
Monument to William Willats, About 5 Metres West of Church of St Mary receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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