Memorial to Louisa AM McGrigor is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 2017. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Memorial to Louisa AM McGrigor
- WRENN ID
- tenth-pediment-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Memorial to Louisa AM McGrigor, Fore Street, Newlyn, Penzance, TR18 5JN
- OS grid reference
- SW 463 285
- Coordinates
- 50.10285, -5.54878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial to Louisa A. M. McGrigor was unveiled in 1921 in her honor, as she died while serving in the Cornwall Voluntary Aid Detachment during the First World War. It is made of rough-hewn granite stone and features a slate plaque. The memorial consists of a two-stepped square base topped by a tapered pedestal, a Tuscan column, and a stone lantern. On the south side of the pedestal, there is a recessed slate slab with the dedication that reads: ‘IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ LOUISA A. M. MCGRIGOR/ COMMANDANT V.A.D. CORNWALL 22/ WHO DIED ON SERVICE, MARCH 31 1917./ ERECTED BY HER FELLOW WORKERS IN/ THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY, WOMEN/ UNIONISTS ASSOCIATION, BOY SCOUTS,/ GIRL GUIDES AND FRIENDS.’ Below this dedication is an adaptation of an extract from the poem, Epilogue by Robert Browning: ‘ONE WHO NEVER TURNED HER BACK BUT MARCHED/ BREAST FORWARD, NEVER DOUBTED CLOUDS WOULD/ BREAK, NEVER DREAMED, THOUGH RIGHT WERE WORSTED,/ WRONG WOULD TRIUMPH, HELD WE FALL TO RISE ARE/ BAFFLED TO FIGHT BETTER. SLEEP TO WAKE.’
Local climate
Memorial to Louisa AM McGrigor sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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