St Ethelreda's Churchyard Tomb of Third Marquess of Salisbury in Cecil Burial Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Tomb.
St Ethelreda's Churchyard Tomb of Third Marquess of Salisbury in Cecil Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- odd-eave-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- St Ethelreda's Churchyard Tomb of Third Marquess of Salisbury in Cecil Burial Ground, Fore Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 235 084
- Coordinates
- 51.76123, -0.21164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb of Robert Arthur Talbot, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who died in 1903, and his wife Georgina Caroline, who died in 1899, is located in the Cecil burial ground at St Ethelreda's Churchyard in Old Hatfield. The tomb features a sandstone base and a canted top made of Portland stone. It is covered with copper and includes a cross, inscriptions, and foliage ornament.
Local climate
St Ethelreda's Churchyard Tomb of Third Marquess of Salisbury in Cecil Burial Ground sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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Nearby listed buildings
- St Ethelreda's Churchyard Monumentto Cecil Family in Burial Ground on East Side of Churchyard
- St Ethelreda's Churchyard Walls and Gates on East Side of Cecil Family Burial Ground
- The Palace
- Numbers 2 and 4,Comprising the Chaplains House and Flats Numbers 1,2,3,4 (The Gate House) and 5, and Including East Wall
- St Ethelreda's Church Hall
- St Ethelreda's Churchyard Gates, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls on North Side of Churchyard
- 5, Church Street
- Real Tennis Court and Exhibition Centre
- 10, Fore Street
- Garden Walls and Gates on the West Side of Hatfield House,Joining the Palace