Webster Tomb 210 Metres West of South East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Tomb.
Webster Tomb 210 Metres West of South East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- final-sentry-jet
- 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
- 54.89833, -1.4188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Webster tomb, located 210 meters west of the South-East Lodge in Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, is a column gravestone with kerbstones dating from around 1890. It was created by Bower & Florence of Aberdeen in memory of Christopher Maling Webster, who lived from 1813 to 1890, and other family members. The tomb is made of red granite and features bronze letters. The kerb has a trefoil moulding and trefoil-gabled dwarf piers that enclose a large rectangular area with a square projection on the west side. In this projection stands a high column that is symbolically broken, with a segmental cornice atop a square pedestal. At the base of the pedestal, there is a carved high-relief anchor and rope. A long inscription on the pedestal lists the names of the Webster family. Notably, the first mechanical rope-making works were established in Sunderland around 1793 by an earlier member of the Webster family.
Local climate
Webster Tomb 210 Metres West of South East Lodge 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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