Gray's Monument is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Gray's Monument
- WRENN ID
- third-steel-reed
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Gray's Monument, Church Lane, Stoke Poges
- OS grid reference
- SU 977 826
- Coordinates
- 51.53445, -0.59154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gray's Monument is a significant structure built in 1799 by architect James Wyatt. It was commissioned by John Penn, the grandson of William Penn, who was the owner of Stoke Park at the time. The monument features a large stone pedestal adorned with panels that are inscribed with verses from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Atop the pedestal sits a sarcophagus, which is characterized by its strigillated side panels.
Local climate
Gray's Monument sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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