Monument to Sarah Sophia and Joseph Warren Zambra is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 2011. Headstone.
Monument to Sarah Sophia and Joseph Warren Zambra
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-pilaster-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 2011
- Type
- Headstone
- Address
- Monument to Sarah Sophia and Joseph Warren Zambra, Highgate Cemetery, Swains Lane, Greater London, N6 6PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 869
- Coordinates
- 51.56691, -0.14879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Sarah Sophia and Joseph Warren Zambra is a tall, slightly tapering headstone topped with a Doric frieze and a triangular pediment that features a wreath. Beneath this, there is a semicircular panel containing a metal plaque with a relief depicting angels carrying a soul to heaven, inscribed with 'Visdaroni [?] 1867'. The main inscription commemorates Sarah Sophia, the wife of Joseph Warren Zambra of Tufnell Park, who died from injuries sustained in a carriage accident at Arreton on the Isle of Wight on August 29, 1867, at the age of 42. It also notes Joseph Warren Zambra, who died at Walden, Fitzjohns Avenue Hampstead on December 13, 1897, at the age of 75, and mentions Sarah, his second wife, who was born on July 14, 1823, and died on December 15, 1901. The monument includes a slab with a plain cross and a shaped footstone featuring an amorino (winged cherub's head) and a garland carved in relief.
Local climate
Monument to Sarah Sophia and Joseph Warren Zambra 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 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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