Monument to the Continental is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1987. Monument.
Monument to the Continental
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-tin-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1987
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to the Continental, Shurdington
- OS grid reference
- SO 944 189
- Coordinates
- 51.86894, -2.0819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to the horse Continental, dated 1902, is made of large blocks of roughly squared and dressed stone arranged to form a rough pyramid. It was formerly enclosed by an iron railing. The inscription reads: 'To THE MEMORY OF / THE CONTINENTAL / -------Y. -------D FAIR HAVEN /. FOALED 1891 DIED 1902 / AND THE FAVORITE HORSE / OF CECIL ELWES / BY WHOM THESE THINGS WERE WRITTEN'.
Local climate
Monument to the Continental receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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