Atkinson Monument Approximately 10.5 Metres to South of St Mary's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. Headstone.
Atkinson Monument Approximately 10.5 Metres to South of St Mary's Church
- WRENN ID
- tangled-footing-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1990
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SD 209 873
- Coordinates
- 54.27571, -3.2152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Atkinson Monument is a headstone located approximately 10.5 meters south of St Mary's Church in Broughton-in-Furness. It dates from 1805 and is made of ashlar stone. The monument features a triangular-headed design with a fluted fan at the top. The inscription commemorates Jane, the wife of John Atkinson and sister of William Ashburner Esquire of Bombay in the East Indies, who died in 1805, as well as her son Thomas, who died in 1775 at the age of 4. There is also a later inscription for her husband, who died in 1821.
Local climate
Atkinson Monument Approximately 10.5 Metres to South of St Mary's Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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