Dr Johnson's Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. House.
Dr Johnson's Monument
- WRENN ID
- wild-kitchen-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dr Johnson's Monument, Gwaenynog, Denbigh
- OS grid reference
- SJ 030 648
- Coordinates
- 53.17233, -3.45123
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Dr Johnson's Monument is a classical commemorative monument located within a railed enclosure measuring approximately 2.2 meters square. Made of sandstone, the monument shows evidence of having once been painted to resemble marble. It features a tall Grecian urn set atop a square pedestal, reaching an overall height of about 3 meters. The pedestal includes inset white marble plaques on two sides. One plaque is inscribed with "Samuel Johnson LLD/obiit XIII die Decembris/Anno domini MDCCLXXXIV/astatis LXXV," while the other reads, "This spot was often dignified by the presence of Samuel Johnson LLD, whose moral writings exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity give ardour to virtue and confidence to truth."
Local climate
Dr Johnson's Monument sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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