Bolam Tomb 200 Metres West of South East Lodge at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Tomb.
Bolam Tomb 200 Metres West of South East Lodge at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- broken-parapet-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- NZ 373 561
- Coordinates
- 54.89825, -1.41874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bolam tomb, located 200 metres west of the South-East Lodge at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery in Sunderland, is a chest tomb with a kerbstone dedicated to John Bolam (1815-1885) and members of his family. It is made of polished red granite. The kerb features a trefoil roll moulding and trefoil-gabled angle dwarf piers that surround the chest, which is raised on a platform. The chest has a chamfered plinth adorned with a triglyph frieze and patera, along with a dentilled cornice. The hipped coping is topped with a trefoil ridge roll moulding. Inscriptions are present on the sides of the tomb.
Local climate
Bolam Tomb 200 Metres West of South East Lodge at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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