Free Standing Wall Monument to Maxton/Holman Families, About 30 Metres West of Church of St Laurence is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. Monument.
Free Standing Wall Monument to Maxton/Holman Families, About 30 Metres West of Church of St Laurence
- WRENN ID
- standing-arch-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TR 369 653
- Coordinates
- 51.33782, 1.40116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The free-standing wall monument to the Maxton and Holman families, located about 30 metres west of the Church of St. Laurence, dates from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of stock brick, partially rendered, and extended with flint. The main section of the monument stands approximately 6 feet high and features two identical tabernacles on the eastern face. Each tabernacle has a pedestal with festooned sides, brackets supporting open pediments, and winged cherubs set against Rocaille scallops within a moulded panel surround. The earliest date visible on the monument is 1737.
In the centre, there is an early 19th-century stele-shaped plaque mounted on a bracket. To the right, a flint-walled extension includes a segmentally headed channeled rendered end wall, which bears a plaque adorned with heavy foliated consoles and a segmental pediment featuring winged cherubs, trumpets, and clouds. On the western face of the main wall, there is a plaque similar to the one for the Maxton and Holman families, also with festooned sides, brackets, an open pediment, a scalloped panel surround, and a festooned urn.
Local climate
Free Standing Wall Monument to Maxton/Holman Families, About 30 Metres West of Church of St Laurence sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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