Obelisk 20 Yards to East of Addington Church is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Monument.
Obelisk 20 Yards to East of Addington Church
- WRENN ID
- tattered-copper-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 654 588
- Coordinates
- 51.30498, 0.37162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an obelisk located 20 yards east of Addington Church, dating from the late 18th century. Made of stone, it stands 20 feet high on a pedestal with a plinth. The obelisk is inscribed with the dedication 'To William Locker, Governor of Greenwich Hospital'. His date of birth is noted as 1731, but the date of death is illegible.
Local climate
Obelisk 20 Yards to East of Addington Church receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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