Monument to Duke of Beaufort, Circa 100 Metres North East of Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. Monument.
Monument to Duke of Beaufort, Circa 100 Metres North East of Dower House
- WRENN ID
- standing-quoin-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- ST 621 773
- Coordinates
- 51.49398, -2.54691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monument to the 4th Duke of Beaufort, who died in 1756, located approximately 100 metres northeast of Dower House. The monument was in place by 1764 and was designed by Thomas Wright. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a rectangular plinth with diagonal buttresses that support four rusticated rocks, which in turn hold a rectangular sarcophagus also with diagonal buttresses. The plinth has a moulded offset base course and a broad capping. The sarcophagus is adorned with a three-part architrave that carries a frieze decorated with a series of raised triglyphs and a deep cavetto cornice. The frieze includes a carved legend that reads: FRATERNI DIGNUS AMORIS, meaning "Worthy of Brotherly Love." The monument was recently repaired and re-erected by the Avon Gardens Trust in 1987 and was historically believed to commemorate a racehorse.
Local climate
Monument to Duke of Beaufort, Circa 100 Metres North East of Dower House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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