Tomb with Railings Approximately 120 Feet from West Porch to William Smith 1842 and Mary Rayner 1873 is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Tomb.
Tomb with Railings Approximately 120 Feet from West Porch to William Smith 1842 and Mary Rayner 1873
- WRENN ID
- tired-barrel-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TL 533 008
- Coordinates
- 51.68564, 0.21748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a tomb with railings located approximately 120 feet from the west porch of the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch in Stanford Rivers. It commemorates William Smith, who died in 1842, and Mary Rayner, who died in 1873. The tomb features a table tomb on a plain base and is situated about 20 feet to the right of the drive leading to the church. The enclosing railings are made of wrought iron, designed with attractive arrowheads and fluted rails. The posts are likely cast iron, adorned with mouldings and urnheads.
Local climate
Tomb with Railings Approximately 120 Feet from West Porch to William Smith 1842 and Mary Rayner 1873 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
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