Brown Headstone 17 Metres South of East End of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. A 18th century Headstone.
Brown Headstone 17 Metres South of East End of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- tangled-alcove-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- NU 236 116
- Coordinates
- 55.39856, -1.62747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone located 17 metres south of the east end of the Church of St. Mary in Lesbury, dating from 1799. It is made of sandstone and features a relief-carved top panel that includes an anchor, rope, trumpet, arrow, and scythe, surrounded by scenes of shipwrecks. The inscription commemorates George Brown of Bedlington, a master mariner who was wrecked on this coast on April 5, 1799, at the age of 46. The inscription reads:
"The Boreas blasts & Neptunes Waves
Hath tost me to and fro
In spite of both by Gods decree
I Harbour here below
Now here at Anchor I do lie
With many of our Fleet
In hopes to set my Sail again
My Saviour Christ to meet."
Local climate
Brown Headstone 17 Metres South of East End of Church of St Mary receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Headstone with Coat of Arms 12 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- 2 Hedley Headstone 14 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Cuthbert
- 3 Young Headstones 9 Metres North East of South Gate to Churchyard of St Mary
- 4 Bower Headstone 15 Metres South-East of South Aisle of Church of St Mary
- 5 Newbury Headstone Approximately 22 Metres North East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings