Tomb 5 metres east of St Nicholas's Church, to Mary, wife of Joseph French of Little Burstead, Essex, died 1800 is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. Tomb.
Tomb 5 metres east of St Nicholas's Church, to Mary, wife of Joseph French of Little Burstead, Essex, died 1800
- WRENN ID
- young-turret-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TQ 439 964
- Coordinates
- 51.64854, 0.07895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a tomb dating from 1800, located 5 metres east of St Nicholas's Church. It is designed in the Early English style and constructed from limestone. The tomb features a gabled roof and has three blind trefoil arches at each end, supported by engaged columns with moulded capitals and bases. Each side of the tomb displays six similar arches with a continuous label and foliate stops, and it has a moulded base. The roof is covered with overlapping stone slabs. At the west end of the ridge, there is a cross with diagonal links, and at the east end, there is a damaged Latin cross. The inscription commemorates Mary, the wife of Joseph French of Little Burstead, Essex, who died in 1800. The tomb measures approximately 2.84 metres in length, 1.75 metres in width, and an estimated height of 3.50 metres.
Local climate
Tomb 5 metres east of St Nicholas's Church, to Mary, wife of Joseph French of Little Burstead, Essex, died 1800 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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