Wilsons Monument, Ulverston Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1996. Monument.
Wilsons Monument, Ulverston Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- crooked-thatch-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1996
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Wilsons Monument, Ulverston Cemetery, Priory Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 291 770
- Coordinates
- 54.18393, -3.08717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wilson's Monument is located in Ulverston Cemetery and dates from around 1900. It is said to have been made by the stonemasons Affleck's of Ulverston. The monument is designed as a scale replica of a lighthouse, featuring carved rocks and waves around its base. The tapered shaft is incised to resemble ashlar blocks, a doorway, and window openings. At the top, a glass lantern, which originally enclosed a gas jet, is surrounded by four shafts that support a drum and an openwork cap topped with a ball-and-spike finial. The base is adorned with a carved anchor and chain, along with inscriptions, some in verse, that commemorate Thomas Watkins Wilson MD, who "Fell asleep at 20 minutes to 7 on Friday evening January 15th 1897..." and note, "Every year for 15 years we were wont to spend some months at Conishead Priory."
Local climate
Wilsons Monument, Ulverston Cemetery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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