Monument with Railing Surround to Thomas Gadd Matthews is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1993. Monument.
Monument with Railing Surround to Thomas Gadd Matthews
- WRENN ID
- twisted-chimney-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1993
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument with Railing Surround to Thomas Gadd Matthews, Bath Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 607 714
- Coordinates
- 51.44092, -2.56642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This monument, dedicated to Thomas Gadd Matthews, is located in Arno's Vale Cemetery in Bristol and dates from around 1860. It features a sarcophagus, a plinth, and railings, constructed from Carrara marble, Forest of Dean sandstone ashlar, and cast iron. The large plinth has concave sides and angle console buttresses, adorned with inscribed sunken panels that have foliate surrounds. Atop the plinth sits a large sarcophagus supported by lion feet, with a gadrooned top and an acroterion finial. Surrounding the monument are iron railings with ten battered piers set on Pennant plinths. Originally, yews were planted at each corner and box hedges lined the railings. The total cost of the tomb was £1,000. It was constructed to allow Thomas Gadd Matthews, an oil and indigo merchant and dry salter, to be buried in the Anglican section of the cemetery while his wife was interred in the nonconformist part; this required the diversion of the original dividing path. His obituary was published in the Bristol Times in June 1860.
Local climate
Monument with Railing Surround to Thomas Gadd Matthews receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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