Headstone to Thomas Corbett 20 Metres East of Church of St Helen is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1994. Monument.
Headstone to Thomas Corbett 20 Metres East of Church of St Helen
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1994
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NZ 188 267
- Coordinates
- 54.6357, -1.70922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The headstone for Thomas Corbett is located approximately 100 meters east of the Church of St Helen in Bishop Auckland. It was created around 1867 and is signed by J Watson. This Gothic-style headstone is made of sandstone and stands 1 meter high. It features Gothic-arched heads on the main slab and narrow side panels, which have tooled decoration. The inscription is presented in various letter styles, including Gothic, sans serif, sans serif italic, and both upper and lower case cursive script. It commemorates Corbett, who was "instantaneously killed at the above named colliery, by being thrown into the fly wheel hole, with the rope getting out of its course, which he was assisting to put on to the drum of the engine while in motion." He was just 17 years old. The headstone was erected by the bankmen of the colliery as a mark of respect.
Local climate
Headstone to Thomas Corbett 20 Metres East of Church of St Helen receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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