Dorothea Day Monument in Churchyard, About 5 Metres East of Church of St Vigor is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1986. Monument.
Dorothea Day Monument in Churchyard, About 5 Metres East of Church of St Vigor
- WRENN ID
- final-chamber-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- ST 659 507
- Coordinates
- 51.25525, -2.48946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dorothea Day monument is a memorial slab located in the churchyard, about 5 meters east of the Church of St. Vigor. It is dated 1811 and commemorates Dorothea Day. The memorial features a railed enclosure made of wrought-iron railings, each topped with a spear cap and corner urn finials, standing on a plain freestone kerb. The area enclosed by the railings is slabbed at ground level, with a central slab that has incised lettering. This monument is included mainly for its group value with the Church of St. Vigor.
Local climate
Dorothea Day Monument in Churchyard, About 5 Metres East of Church of St Vigor receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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