Maud Heath's Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Monument.
Maud Heath's Monument
- WRENN ID
- final-attic-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Maud Heath's Monument, Langley Burrell Without
- OS grid reference
- ST 946 757
- Coordinates
- 51.4811, -2.07791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maud Heath's Monument is a 17th century monument, dated 1698, dedicated to Maud Heath who died in 1474. It features an ashlar pillar on a pedestal base, standing about 3 meters high. The monument has a cornice cap and a large top piece with sundials on three faces, topped with a ball finial. The pillar includes arched-headed sunk panels with pendant keystones and carved spandrels on three sides. The west side panel is inscribed 'Chippenham Clift', the east side reads 'Wick Hill', and the front bears the inscription: 'To the memory of the worthy Maud Heath of Langly Burrell Widow who in the year of Grace 1474 for the good of travellers did in Charity bestow in Lands and houses about Eight pounds a year for ever to be laid out on the Highways and Causey leading from Wick Hill to Chipenham Clift. This piller was set up by the feoffees in 1698. Injure me not.' The sundials have inscriptions in Latin above and English below. The monument is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument in Wiltshire.
Local climate
Maud Heath's Monument receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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