The Reade Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 2002. Memorial.
The Reade Memorial
- WRENN ID
- western-alcove-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 2002
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- The Reade Memorial, Ipsden
- OS grid reference
- SU 627 850
- Coordinates
- 51.56084, -1.09654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Reade Memorial is a stone memorial built in 1827 to commemorate John Thurlow Reade, who died while serving in India, likely in Sehaarunpore, now known as Saharunpur. The memorial has a square plan with a stepped plinth and a box shape that forms the main body, topped with a steep pyramid that has an indented course near the apex. One face of the box is inscribed with the following text:
JOHN THURLOW READE
ESQUIRE
SEHAARUNPORE
NOVEMBER 25TH A.D. 1827
ALAS MY BROTHER
This memorial is of special interest as an early 19th-century stone tribute to a British individual who died in India. Additionally, it is noteworthy that Reade's family later designed the Grade II listed Maharaja Well at Stoke Row, Oxfordshire, in the 19th century.
Local climate
The Reade Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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