Walpole Monument 25 Yards South of Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the Reigate and Banstead local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Walpole Monument 25 Yards South of Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- dark-joist-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- Reigate MP: Rebecca Paul (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 563
- Coordinates
- 51.29208, -0.16073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Walpole Monument is an altar-type monument dedicated to Thomas Walpole, who died in 1840. It is located 25 yards south of the Church of St Margaret. The monument features a stone pier set on a moulded plinth, with an armorial crest on the panelled north face. At the top, there is a Grecian frieze adorned with palmettes at the corners, and it is crowned by a central urn. The monument holds group value with the Church of St Margaret.
Local climate
Walpole Monument 25 Yards South of Church of St Margaret receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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