Cavendish Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1987. Memorial.
Cavendish Memorial
- WRENN ID
- slow-kitchen-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1987
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Cavendish Memorial, B 6160, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 075 544
- Coordinates
- 53.98632, -1.88711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cavendish Memorial is a memorial with a fountain, dated 1886. It is constructed of ashlar and has a hexagonal shape. The memorial is accessed by four steps leading to a plinth, which features offset gableted buttresses at each corner that rise above the parapets. A frieze below the eaves bears the inscription: "This fountain was erected by electors of the West Riding as a tribute to his memory, Frederick Charles Cavendish Born November 1836. Died May 1882." Between the buttresses, there are pointed arches on banded half-shafts with ogee-headed hoodmoulds. A fountain is located at the center of the base, and there is a gargoyle at each buttress level with the frieze. Above the frieze, an embattled parapet features blank cusped pointed-arched arcading, with a central coat of arms on each side. At the top, there is an open ogee lantern, crowned with a crocketed pinnacle on open gableted arches above the lantern.
Local climate
Cavendish Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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