Gravestone to Joseph Freeman, New London Road Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. Gravestone.
Gravestone to Joseph Freeman, New London Road Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- over-gateway-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gravestone
- OS grid reference
- TL 703 060
- Coordinates
- 51.72692, 0.46475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gravestone to Joseph Freeman is located in New London Road Cemetery. It commemorates Freeman, who liberated himself from enslavement in New Orleans and died in Chelmsford in 1875.
The gravestone is rectangular with a moulded triangular top. The inscription reads: ‘ERECTED / by his Christian friends / to the memory of / JOSEPH / once a slave in New Orleans / who escaped to England and / became also a FREE MAN / in Christ / He was employed for several years / at the London Road Iron Works / until his death at the age of 45 / on the 28th Novr 1875 / Reader! Have you been made free / from the slavery of sin’.
Local climate
Gravestone to Joseph Freeman, New London 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- 3 Freeman Monument in the Churchyard Approximately 18 Metres North of North Transept to Church of the Holy Trinity
- 4 Monument to Joseph Roberts, Between Cemetery Chapels
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