Tomb of A Reed About 100 Metres South West of Jesmond Cemetery Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Tomb.
Tomb of A Reed About 100 Metres South West of Jesmond Cemetery Gates
- WRENN ID
- gentle-hammer-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne North MP: Catherine McKinnell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- NZ 256 654
- Coordinates
- 54.98322, -1.601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb of A. Reed, located about 100 meters south-west of the gates of Jesmond Cemetery, is a Grade II listed Gothic tower tomb built around 1843. It was designed by architect I. Dobson and serves as a memorial to Archibald Reed, who was a sheriff, alderman, and six-time mayor of Newcastle, having died in 1842. The tomb is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a 21-stage tower with pinnacled diagonal buttresses and an octagonal spire. It includes head-stopped drip moulds and a slab at the west side that marks the entrance to the vault.
Local climate
Tomb of A Reed About 100 Metres South West of Jesmond Cemetery Gates receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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