Humphreys Memorial in churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 2005. Memorial.
Humphreys Memorial in churchyard
- WRENN ID
- muffled-dormer-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 2005
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Humphreys Memorial in churchyard, Montgomery
- OS grid reference
- SO 223 964
- Coordinates
- 52.56052, -3.14652
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Humphreys Memorial is a sandstone structure located in the churchyard, designed in a neo-classical style. It features a large urn atop a pedestal. The pedestal, frieze, and cornice are crafted from a single piece of stone and rest on a separately moulded plinth. The frieze includes raised roundels and a moulded cornice. The plaques on the pedestal have incised borders with quadrant rebates at the corners. The top is stepped, leading to a square pyramidal base for the large urn, which has a gadrooned lower part and a flared shape with a gadrooned lip.
On the east side, there is an inscription dedicated to Charles Gardner Humphreys, who died in 1862. He served as a lieutenant with the 14th Light Dragoons during the Peninsular War and was awarded a medal with seven clasps for the Salamanca to Toulouse campaign. The south side bears an inscription for Charles Gardner Humphreys, a solicitor who died in 1803, and his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1819. The north side commemorates Elizabeth Humphreys, who died in 1798 at the age of 7, and Mary, who died in 1815 at the age of 20. The west side is inscribed for Richard Humphreys, who died in 1876.
Local climate
Humphreys Memorial in churchyard receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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