Collins Tomb Circa 4 Metres South of Church of St Mary and St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Tomb.
Collins Tomb Circa 4 Metres South of Church of St Mary and St Stephen
- WRENN ID
- ragged-cobble-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- NZ 073 373
- Coordinates
- 54.73135, -1.88736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Collins Tomb is a table tomb located approximately 4 metres south of the Church of St. Mary and St. Stephen in Wolsingham. It commemorates Tristram Collins, a surgeon who died in 1782 at the age of 68. The tomb features a moulded sandstone slab supported by two round pedestals that have shallow fluting, with diagonally-placed bases and capitals. The tomb also includes names of other members of the Collins family who died between 1751 and 1814.
Local climate
Collins Tomb Circa 4 Metres South of Church of St Mary and St Stephen receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- 4 Monument to Collins Family, 2 Metres South West of Porch of Church of All Saints
- 5 Monument to Mary Collins Approximately 5 Metres South of West Tower at St Nicholas Church
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