Watson Tomb Circa 10 Metres West of Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Tomb.
Watson Tomb Circa 10 Metres West of Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- steep-corridor-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- NZ 127 308
- Coordinates
- 54.67297, -1.80447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watson tomb, located approximately 10 metres west of the Church of St. James, dates from around 1787 and commemorates John Watson of Coldsides. This headstone is made of sandstone and stands about 1.2 metres high. It features an elaborately shaped top with a tooled edge. The top panel displays a low-relief pair of cherub heads, each showing one pair of wings, above an eroded Hebrew inscription. Below this is a long, well-cut commemorative inscription that includes an inset 'hrou' in the word 'Through', suggesting a correction to the spelling.
Local climate
Watson Tomb Circa 10 Metres West of Church of St James receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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