Tomb of Nicholas Wood, 32 Metres to South of Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. Tomb. 3 related planning applications.
Tomb of Nicholas Wood, 32 Metres to South of Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- stony-corridor-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South MP: Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Nicholas Wood, 32 Metres to South of Church of St Nicholas, DH5 9HJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 353 473
- Coordinates
- 54.8196, -1.45151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a tomb dating to circa 1855, located 32 metres south of the Church of St Nicholas. Constructed from sandstone, it is designed in the Gothic style as an altar tomb. The structure features three cusped-arched panels, flanked by coped buttresses that support a frieze with simple flower decoration, and a cornice. Inscriptions detail the memory of Maria Foster, wife of Nicholas Wood, who died in January 1855 aged 56 years, and also of Nicholas Wood himself, who died in December 1865 aged 70 years. Nicholas Wood was the engineer to the Hetton Coal Company, who, in 1820, oversaw the sinking of the first shaft to reach coal beneath the limestone of Durham. He collaborated with George Stephenson to design the Hetton railway, which opened in 1822 and transported coal to the Wear. In 1825, Wood published "A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads and Interior Communications in General."
Local climate
Tomb of Nicholas Wood, 32 Metres to South of Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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
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