Tombstone (10 Yards to South of Tower of Church of St Edmund) is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1983. Tombstone.
Tombstone (10 Yards to South of Tower of Church of St Edmund)
- WRENN ID
- quiet-rubble-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1983
- Type
- Tombstone
- OS grid reference
- TG 176 124
- Coordinates
- 52.66594, 1.21788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This tombstone, located 10 yards south of the tower of the Church of St Edmund, dates from 1799 and commemorates William Wilkin. It features a square base with tapered corner pilasters and inscriptions on oval pieces of slate. The tomb is topped with a pyramidal structure that is capped with an urn.
Local climate
Tombstone (10 Yards to South of Tower of Church of St Edmund) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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