Walton Tomb About 10 Metres South of Church of St Thomas on East Side of Path is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Tombstone.
Walton Tomb About 10 Metres South of Church of St Thomas on East Side of Path
- WRENN ID
- bitter-pediment-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Tombstone
- OS grid reference
- NY 996 392
- Coordinates
- 54.74785, -2.00635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Walton tomb, located about 10 metres south of the Church of St. Thomas on the east side of the path, is a Grade II listed headstone commemorating Ann and Michael Walton, who died in 1763 and 1770 at the ages of 87 and 80. This tomb features a moulded, square-topped sandstone slab that stands approximately 1.5 metres high. The inscription reads: 'He that like us/hath numbered fourscore years/must need be weary of this vale of tears/desire to be translated/to the place where we/shall ever see our saviour face/cease from sorrows here/yea cease from sin/and a Blest eternity begin/below our cares are done/all our accounts are even/and now we are gone/(obscured by earth) heaven.'
Local climate
Walton Tomb About 10 Metres South of Church of St Thomas on East Side of Path sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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