Memorial Cloister and Attached Wall at Joy Mead Recreation Ground is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. Memorial cloister.
Memorial Cloister and Attached Wall at Joy Mead Recreation Ground
- WRENN ID
- floating-cobalt-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- Memorial cloister
- Address
- Memorial Cloister and Attached Wall at Joy Mead Recreation Ground, Main Street, Farthingstone
- OS grid reference
- SP 613 550
- Coordinates
- 52.18992, -1.10332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial cloister at Joy Mead Recreation Ground was built in 1930 by Talbot Brown and Fisher from Wellingborough. It is constructed from dressed ironstone and coursed ironstone rubble, topped with Collyweston stone slate roofs. The structure is a single storey with a two-window range. The entrance features a central three-bay opening supported by two full columns and two half columns, along with two semi-circular steps leading to the central opening. The columns are octagonal with broach stop-chamfered capitals and square abaci that have recessed panels. On either side of the entrance are two matching open windows with two pairs of stone balusters. The cloister has a moulded eaves cornice.
Inside, the cloister walks consist of five bays along the long sides and four bays along the side walks, featuring open arcades supported by similar columns, with hall-columns at the corner piers. Each angle of the cloister has pairs of shallow niches with round arch heads, and facing the entrance on the far wall is a larger central recess with a moulded stone frame that contains the painted stone arms of the Agnew family, along with a bronze commemorative plate below. The walks have shallow plaster barrel vaults, and both the walks and the cloister garth are stone paved.
To the right of the entrance front, there is an attached stone wall with a 'keyhole' arch. This cloister was erected by the Agnew family in memory of World War I and their only son, Ewan Siegfried.
Local climate
Memorial Cloister and Attached Wall at Joy Mead Recreation Ground 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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