Tomb of Eve Hammersley in St Johns Churchyard Extension is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Tomb.
Tomb of Eve Hammersley in St Johns Churchyard Extension
- WRENN ID
- odd-beam-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Eve Hammersley in St Johns Churchyard Extension, Church Row
- OS grid reference
- TQ 262 857
- Coordinates
- 51.55625, -0.18058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of Eve Hammersley, located in the extension of St John's Churchyard, is an open-sided shrine built in 1903 by Harry Furse. It is made of limestone and features bronze figures. The rectangular shrine is adorned with Ionic pilasters at each corner, which flank round-arched openings that have architraved heads and foliated keystones, supported by carved console brackets. Above, there is an entablature with a projecting cornice. The shrine is elevated on a rectangular plinth that has a moulded base and cornice, and it includes a carved relief wreath inscribed in the center. A larger-than-life bronze sculpture of a winged angel cradling and kissing a young sleeping girl is a prominent feature, signed by Furse in 1903. Eve Hammersley, who passed away in 1902, was the young daughter of an artistic and literary family that resided at Admiral's House.
Local climate
Tomb of Eve Hammersley in St Johns Churchyard Extension 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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