Tomb of Mary Basnett in St Pancras Old Church Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Tomb.
Tomb of Mary Basnett in St Pancras Old Church Gardens
- WRENN ID
- kindled-gable-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Mary Basnett in St Pancras Old Church Gardens, Pancras Road, NW1 1UL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 297 834
- Coordinates
- 51.53483, -0.13031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of Mary Basnett, located in St Pancras Old Church Gardens, is a Grade II listed pedestal tomb dating from around 1756. It is made of stone and features a rectangular pedestal with an armorial cartouche on one end. An enriched cornice supports a plinth that is crowned by a scrolled console column, which originally had an urn finial. The plinth is notable for its unusual bas relief depicting a winged woman holding a baby.
Local climate
Tomb of Mary Basnett in St Pancras Old Church Gardens 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 95% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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