Monument to the Ladies of Llangollen & their Housekeeper in the Churchyard of St. Collen's Parish Ch is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 December 1989. Monument.
Monument to the Ladies of Llangollen & their Housekeeper in the Churchyard of St. Collen's Parish Ch
- WRENN ID
- graven-cupola-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1989
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SJ 216 419
- Coordinates
- 52.96917, -3.16813
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The monument to the Ladies of Llangollen and their housekeeper is located in the churchyard of St. Collen's Parish Church. It is designed in a triangular and Gothic style, constructed from freestone. The monument features a pyramidal cap and gables on each face, with small gables above panelled corner buttresses. Each face has cusped recesses that contain stone-carved memorial tablets with lengthy inscriptions and biblical quotations. The southeast side commemorates Mrs. Mary Carryl, who died in 1809; the west side honors Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler, who died in 1829; and the northeast side pays tribute to Sarah Ponsonby, who died in 1931.
Local climate
Monument to the Ladies of Llangollen & their Housekeeper in the Churchyard of St. Collen's Parish Ch receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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