Bishop Hooper's Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Monument.
Bishop Hooper's Monument
- WRENN ID
- half-mullion-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Bishop Hooper's Monument, St Mary's Square
- OS grid reference
- SO 829 188
- Coordinates
- 51.86824, -2.24848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bishop Hooper's Monument is a Grade II listed structure located in St Mary's Square, Gloucester. It commemorates Bishop Hooper, who was burned at the stake in 1555. The monument was constructed between 1861 and 1863 by the architects Medland and Maberley and is made of ashlar stone.
The design features a square base with a moulded plinth and weathered top. At each corner, there are buttressed piers topped with pinnacles. Between the piers, there are open, foiled arches and gablets. The entire structure is crowned by a tall, crocketed spire with a finial. Inside the "tabernacle" canopy, there is a slightly larger than life-size statue of Bishop Hooper, created by Edward W Thornhill of Dublin, which faces east. The monument was funded by public subscription.
Local climate
Bishop Hooper's Monument receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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