Four Rows of Tombstones South of South Transept and Chancel of Parish Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Tombstone.
Four Rows of Tombstones South of South Transept and Chancel of Parish Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- secret-brass-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1988
- Type
- Tombstone
- Address
- Four Rows of Tombstones South of South Transept and Chancel of Parish Church of All Saints, Morborne
- OS grid reference
- TL 139 914
- Coordinates
- 52.50942, -0.32271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Four rows of tombstones are located south of the south transept and chancel of the parish church of All Saints in Morborne. These tombstones date from the 18th century and early 19th century and are made of carved limestone slabs. The rows are identified as A-D from west to east.
In Row A, the first stone has a shouldered head with an unclear inscription, the second features a shouldered elliptical head with a large round plaque, a deeply carved dove, and two putti. The third is similar to the second but has unclear inscriptions, while the fourth has a scrolled head with putti and an unclear inscription.
Row B includes a square-headed stone with an unclear inscription, and a scrolled head with two putti and a moulded arched head to the plaque, also with an unclear inscription.
Row C features two stones with similar shaped heads and unclear inscriptions that were originally painted black, and a segmental head with putti and ribband decoration, along with a laurel garland to an oval plaque with an unclear inscription.
Row D contains a stone dated 1780, which has a shouldered head with putti and leaf ornament enclosing a plaque; another with a segmental head and shouldered segmental headed plaque featuring three putti and an unclear inscription; a segmental head with a central putti and scroll and swag decoration; and finally, a square head with a shouldered plaque that has an unclear inscription, originally painted black.
Local climate
Four Rows of Tombstones South of South Transept and Chancel of Parish Church of All Saints sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% 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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