Glasson Monument Approximately 10 Metres to North East of St Michael's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Headstone.
Glasson Monument Approximately 10 Metres to North East of St Michael's Church
- WRENN ID
- slow-obsidian-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- NY 487 263
- Coordinates
- 54.62998, -2.79509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Glasson Monument is a headstone located approximately 10 meters to the north-east of St Michael's Church. It dates from the 20th century and is made of ashlar stone. The monument features a convex shape with angle pilasters that support two kneeling cherubs in prayer. It has a segmental cornice. The inscriptions are in E Gill's script; the east side commemorates Lancelot Thompson Glasson and his wife Ellen, while the west side includes a quotation from Psalm 104 from the Authorised Version of the Bible. The dates of death recorded on the monument are 1935 and 1946.
Local climate
Glasson Monument Approximately 10 Metres to North East of St Michael's Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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