Hopper Tomb Circa 1 Metre East of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. Tomb.
Hopper Tomb Circa 1 Metre East of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- far-sentry-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- NZ 235 452
- Coordinates
- 54.80202, -1.63573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hopper tomb, located about one metre east of the Church of St. Michael, is a headstone likely dating from 1714. It commemorates Robert Hopper, who died in 1670, his wife Joan, who died in 1673, and Isabel, the daughter of J. Reed of Shotton and wife of Thomas Hopper, who died in 1714. The tomb also honors Thomas Hopper. It features a sandstone ashlar slab with a shallow roll-moulded edge and a roughly-chamfered back. The inscription is long and well-cut in Latin, although the top right corner was damaged at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Hopper Tomb Circa 1 Metre East of Church of St Michael receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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