Tombstone of Sir Charles Nicholson and family is a Grade II listed building in the Castle Point local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 2021. Tombstone.
Tombstone of Sir Charles Nicholson and family
- WRENN ID
- white-paling-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point MP: Rebecca Harris (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 2021
- Type
- Tombstone
- Address
- Tombstone of Sir Charles Nicholson and family, Tombstone 2m South-West of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Benfleet, Essex
- OS grid reference
- TQ 778 861
- Coordinates
- 51.54608, 0.56303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tombstone of Sir Charles Nicholson and his family, dated 1927, is made from a single carved limestone slab. It is located approximately 2 meters south-west of the west tower of the Grade I listed Church of St Mary. In the churchyard, there are five listed tombstones, including an 18th-century chest tomb and a group of four 18th-century headstones, all of which are Grade II.
The tombstone has a shallow, rectangular shape with chamfered edges and rests on a very low, slightly stepped base. Its upper surface features a horizontal relief of a simple cross on a stepped base. The left (north) chamfered edge is inscribed with the relief capital letters “Evelyn Louise Nicholson 1867-1927.” The right (south) chamfered edge reads “Charles Archibald Nicholson 1867-1949.” The top chamfered edge is inscribed with “CMN 1883-1962,” while the bottom chamfered edge simply bears the letters “RIP.”
Local climate
Tombstone of Sir Charles Nicholson and family receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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