Taylor Tomb 210 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.
Taylor Tomb 210 Metres West of South East Lodge at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- floating-chapel-honey
- 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 373 560
- Coordinates
- 54.89805, -1.41904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Taylor Tomb, located 210 metres west of the South-East Lodge at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery in Sunderland, is a Grade II listed structure dating from around 1911. It serves as a memorial for Margaret Taylor, who lived from 1849 to 1911, the wife of Henneson Taylor.
This tomb features a cross headstone and a kerbstone made of granite. The cross shaft stands approximately 4 metres high and is designed in a medieval style. It has a tapered pedestal and a tapered shaft that supports a coped cross, with all components richly decorated in interlace and inhabited vine patterns. The cross includes a central boss and has arms that are linked by a secondary ring. The enclosing kerbstone has low rounded coping, with corner and intermediate dwarf piers topped with domed coping that sweeps to the corners.
Local climate
Taylor Tomb 210 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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- 4 Taylor Monument in the Southern Part of Eastern Section of the Cemetery
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