Monument to Woodward Family About 75 Metres North of Cemetery Chapel, with Plot Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. Monument.
Monument to Woodward Family About 75 Metres North of Cemetery Chapel, with Plot Wall
- WRENN ID
- scarred-ember-falcon
- 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 383 661
- Coordinates
- 51.34397, 1.42144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to the Woodward family, located about 75 metres north of the cemetery chapel in Ramsgate, was created around 1920 by Elliott and Sons, monumental masons from Ramsgate. It features a black marble structure with a white marble plot wall. The low moulded wall includes corner piers topped with ball finials. At the center stands an obelisk on a cross-shaped base, which has a pedimented top also adorned with a ball finial.
The eastern face of the obelisk bears the engraved name of the Woodward family, along with inscriptions on three sides. The north face is dedicated to "The Brotherhood of English Speaking Peoples," honoring those who died in the Great War, as well as motherhood, referred to as "The Heroes of Humdrum," and to animals and birds that have suffered at the hands of humans, stating "And to the gradually disappearing wildlife of the Earth." This dedication is attributed to Joseph George Woodward.
Each face of the pedimented top piece features bronze relief plaques, also signed by J.G. Woodward, illustrating seals and sea lions. The plaques commemorate various achievements, including the progress in the education of seals in 1878 and sea lions in 1883, life-saving efforts from drowning in 1878, the first sea lion equilibrists in 1898, and improvements to submarine detector technology during Admiralty work from 1916 to 1917, all depicted with appropriate dramatic scenes.
Local climate
Monument to Woodward Family About 75 Metres North of Cemetery Chapel, with Plot Wall 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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