Captain Thomas Agar-Robartes Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 2017. Memorial.
Captain Thomas Agar-Robartes Memorial
- WRENN ID
- grim-render-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SX 010 524
- Coordinates
- 50.33854, -4.79764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Captain Thomas Agar-Robartes Memorial is a granite stone bench dedicated to Captain Thomas Agar-Robartes, unveiled in 1922. It is located at the junction of Park Road and Truro Road, facing roughly northeast.
The memorial features a low bench supported by four curved stone corbels. Surrounding the bench is a structure made of ashlar granite, with piers at each end displaying the dates 1914 and 1919. These piers are topped with slightly moulded ball finials.
Connecting the piers is a wall that includes a central bronze plaque, which has a carved wreath above it. The plaque bears the inscription: "TO THE MEMORY OF/ CAPTAIN THE HON. THOMAS CHARLES/ REGINALD AGAR-ROBARTES/ COLDSTREAM GUARDS, M.P. FOR THE ST./ AUSTELL DIVISION OF CORNWALL, WHO LOST/ HIS LIFE IN FRANCE SEPT. 30TH 1915, AFTER/ RESCUING A WOUNDED COMRADE UNDER/ HEAVY FIRE, FOR WHICH GALLANT EXPLOIT/ HE WAS RECOMMENDED FOR THE VICTORIA/ CROSS. ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE/ OF LORDS AND OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS".
The rear of the bench is slightly corbelled out at each end and includes a square recess at one end. In front of the bench, the paving is arranged in three sections, featuring a central circular piece of granite flanked by sections laid in a diamond pattern on each side.
Local climate
Captain Thomas Agar-Robartes Memorial receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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