Tomb of Edward and Elizabeth Rist Lawrence at Mill Road Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 2000. Monument.
Tomb of Edward and Elizabeth Rist Lawrence at Mill Road Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- waning-lantern-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 2000
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 462 581
- Coordinates
- 52.20235, 0.13838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb of Edward and Elizabeth Rist Lawrence is located at Mill Road Cemetery and dates from around 1857. This monument is made of stone and features a moulded square pedestal adorned with a frieze of finely carved beribboned wreaths. Above the pedestal sits a square cinerary urn, which has carved pediments and antefixae, topped with an elaborate finial. The inscriptions on the tomb commemorate Edward Rist Lawrence, who died in 1876, his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1857, and another Edward, who died in 1861 at the age of 25.
Local climate
Tomb of Edward and Elizabeth Rist Lawrence at Mill Road Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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