Wellington Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 June 1980. Monument.
Wellington Monument
- WRENN ID
- heavy-pinnacle-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1980
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Wellington Monument, Penparcau, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 584 802
- Coordinates
- 52.40155, -4.08248
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Wellington Monument is a tribute to the first Duke of Wellington, designed as an 18-metre high upturned cannon or industrial-style chimney. It is constructed from local coursed rubble, tapering towards the top and stepping out at the base, with a funnel that sweeps outwards. A concrete platform supports the monument, and a modern commemorative plaque was added in 1999. The lower part of the monument features a shale/slate pediment that is inscribed with a significant amount of historic and recent graffiti.
Local climate
Wellington Monument sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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