Mary's Pillar on East Side of Road Between Shap and Bampton Grange is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Memorial.
Mary's Pillar on East Side of Road Between Shap and Bampton Grange
- WRENN ID
- muffled-ashlar-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Mary's Pillar on East Side of Road Between Shap and Bampton Grange, Shap Rural
- OS grid reference
- NY 538 175
- Coordinates
- 54.55129, -2.71498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mary's Pillar is a memorial dated 1854, located on the east side of the road between Shap and Bampton Grange. It was erected by Mary Castley's father at her favorite viewpoint. The structure is made of rough-dressed stone blocks and stands on a plinth. It has a square plan and consists of three stages with banding, reaching approximately 20 feet in height overall. On the south-west elevation, the lower stage features a slab seat set in a narrow semicircular-headed recess. The middle stage has an oval panel inscribed with "MARY'S PILLAR 1854" in a shallow triangular-headed recess, while the top stage is pyramidal in shape.
Local climate
Mary's Pillar on East Side of Road Between Shap and Bampton Grange sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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