Statue & Plinth to Henry Seymour Berry is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. Statue.
Statue & Plinth to Henry Seymour Berry
- WRENN ID
- tilted-newel-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Statue
- Address
- Statue & Plinth to Henry Seymour Berry, Town
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 062
- Coordinates
- 51.74724, -3.37796
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a statue and plinth dedicated to Henry Seymour Berry, located in Merthyr Tydfil. The statue is a black-painted bronze figure depicting Berry in full robes, wearing a cocked hat, with a parchment held in his right hand. The figure stands on a moulded pink granite plinth that features an inscription stating: "Henry Seymour Berry, Baron Buckland of Bwlch, Hon. Freeman of the Co. Borough of Merthyr Tydfil. Born 1877 - Died 1928. Erected by Public Subscription."
Local climate
Statue & Plinth to Henry Seymour Berry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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