Queen Carolines Monument is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1966. A C18 Monument.

Queen Carolines Monument

WRENN ID
tangled-parapet-spindle
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 July 1966
Type
Monument
Address
Queen Carolines Monument, Stowe
OS grid reference
SP 671 369
Coordinates
52.02653, -1.02235
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Queen Caroline's Monument, likely designed by Vanbrugh around 1725, was relocated to its current site by 1754. The monument features a group of four Ionic columns standing on a podium, topped by a statue of the then Princess of Wales, who later became Queen Caroline. The statue may have been created by Rysbrack.

Local climate

Queen Carolines Monument sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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