Fenwick Tomb About 24 Metres South and 6 Metres East of Church of Holy Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. A C18 Tomb. 1 related planning application.
Fenwick Tomb About 24 Metres South and 6 Metres East of Church of Holy Cross
- WRENN ID
- far-facade-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- NZ 151 648
- Coordinates
- 54.97763, -1.76527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fenwick Tomb, located about 24 meters south and 6 meters east of the Church of Holy Cross, is a table tomb dating from around 1795. It is made of sandstone and features a table supported by a central scrolled pedestal and four tapered, reeded rectangular-section corner columns, which have paterae on their friezes. The inscriptions on the table and slab commemorate Barnabas Fenwick, who died in 1795, as well as other members of his family up to 1823.
Local climate
Fenwick Tomb About 24 Metres South and 6 Metres East of Church of Holy Cross 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 lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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