Monument To Robert Brown, Bent Cemetery, Bent Road, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 1993. Monument.
Monument To Robert Brown, Bent Cemetery, Bent Road, Hamilton
- WRENN ID
- winding-pavement-hazel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1993
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NS 712 551
- Coordinates
- 55.77266, -4.0539
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The monument to Robert Brown, located in Bent Cemetery on Bent Road in Hamilton, was attributed to the architect David Bryce and completed in 1856. It features a bronze portrait relief created by Sir John Steel. The monument consists of a large pedestal topped with a segmental sarcophagus that has Baroque detailing. It is made of polished cream sandstone.
Local climate
Monument To Robert Brown, Bent Cemetery, Bent Road, Hamilton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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