Fairless Harrison Tomb About 100 Metres East of Jesmond Cemetery Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Tomb, headstone.
Fairless Harrison Tomb About 100 Metres East of Jesmond Cemetery Gateway
- WRENN ID
- muffled-lancet-nettle
- 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, headstone
- OS grid reference
- NZ 258 655
- Coordinates
- 54.98425, -1.59795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fairless Harrison tomb, located about 100 metres east of the Jesmond Cemetery gateway, is a Grade II listed headstone dating from around 1906. It commemorates members of the Harrison family and is designed in the Art Nouveau style. The tomb features a tall square column set on a plinth, with tree-like corner shafts that extend into brackets resembling swelling foliage, which support a cornice. The materials used include granite and bronze.
Local climate
Fairless Harrison Tomb About 100 Metres East of Jesmond Cemetery Gateway 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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