Tomb of George and Sarah Kett at Mill Road Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 2003. Tomb.
Tomb of George and Sarah Kett at Mill Road Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- scarred-ember-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 2003
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TL 460 581
- Coordinates
- 52.20249, 0.13608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb of George and Sarah Kett, located at Mill Road Cemetery, dates from around 1872. It is made of white marble with green marble insets. The monument features a low plinth with inscriptions on its sloping sides and a green marble top. Atop this is a full-length and width cross, intricately carved with passion flowers, leaves, and a crown. The headstone is surmounted by a quatrefoil and has an inscription on a carved ribbon. The headstone includes inscriptions for George Kett, who died in 1872, his wife Sarah, who died in 1883, and their son Frederick James. The Kett family was associated with Rattee and Kett, a renowned Cambridge firm of woodcarvers and architectural craftsmen, and it is likely that this tomb was created by them. This tomb is part of a group that includes the tomb of Elizabeth and George Kett, as well as the nearby tombs of Rattee and Moyes.
Local climate
Tomb of George and Sarah Kett 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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