Earle and Collingwoods Tombs About 3 Metres South of Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Tombstone.
Earle and Collingwoods Tombs About 3 Metres South of Church of St Thomas
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- 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
- 54.74788, -2.00631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Earle and Collingwood tombs, located about 3 metres south of the Church of St. Thomas in Stanhope, date back to the 18th and early 19th centuries. These two headstones commemorate Jan, the wife of Jacob Earle, who died in 1770, and Jenning and Sarah Collingwood, who died in 1797 and 1823 at the ages of 24 and 23, respectively.
The tombs are made of sandstone and stand approximately one metre high. The Earle headstone features a fine-grained surface with an elaborately-shaped top and well-cut inscriptions, including verses on each side. The reverse side reads: "Tir'd with travelling thro' this world of sin / At length am come to nature's common Inn / In this dark place here for to rest a night / In hopes to rise that Christ may give me light."
The Collingwood headstone also has a shaped top and tooled sides, with an inscription on the reverse that states: "Mourn not my Friends / Because I died soon / And my Days Journey / Finished at Noon."
Local climate
Earle and Collingwoods Tombs About 3 Metres South of Church of St Thomas 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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