Beaufort Family Tomb, St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 2005. Tomb.
Beaufort Family Tomb, St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens
- WRENN ID
- dusk-lime-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 2005
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Beaufort Family Tomb, St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens, Lower Clapton Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 351 851
- Coordinates
- 51.54917, -0.05289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beaufort Family Tomb is a chest tomb located in the St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens. Made of Portland stone, the tomb features square angle pilasters with moulded capitals set on a shallow moulded base. It has re-cut inscription panels and a mid-20th century bronze plaque that highlights the significance of Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. The tomb is topped with a ledger slab and serves as a monument to the Beaufort family. Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1856) was the Royal Naval Hydrographer from 1829 to 1855, and he created the Beaufort wind force scale, which was adopted by the Royal Navy in 1838 and is still used today to measure wind intensity. This mid-19th century tomb is of historic interest and has group value with the Grade II* Church of St. John at Hackney and other listed monuments in the churchyard.
Local climate
Beaufort Family Tomb, St John at Hackney Churchyard 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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