Baker Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. A Mid C18 Monument.
Baker Monument
- WRENN ID
- ghost-loft-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Baker Monument, Church Hill, South Cadbury and Sutton Montis
- OS grid reference
- ST 624 247
- Coordinates
- 51.02124, -2.53677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baker Monument is a chest tomb located in the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity in South Cadbury, approximately 8 meters east of the chancel. It dates from the mid-18th century and is made of lias stone with white marble insert slabs. The monument features a hollow chamfered plinth, plain panelled ends, and two-panelled flanks. It has a plain frieze and a moulded undercoving leading to a shallow hipped top with buttressed leading edges. The monument commemorates Robert Baker, who was a churchwarden and died in 1751, along with other members of his family.
Local climate
Baker Monument receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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