Hunter 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. 1 related planning application.
Hunter Family Tomb, St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens
- WRENN ID
- grey-plinth-equinox
- 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
- Hunter Family Tomb, St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens, Lower Clapton Road, E9 6EJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 351 851
- Coordinates
- 51.54933, -0.05283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hunter Family Tomb is a chest tomb located in the St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens, made of Portland stone. This mid-19th century tomb features fluted angle pilasters with reeding at the bottom and inscription panels that are surrounded by incised borders with inset corners. It has a moulded ledger slab. The tomb commemorates Captain John Hunter, a British Naval officer and the second Governor of the New South Wales colony in Australia, who lived from 1737 to 1821. The tomb is of particular 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
Hunter 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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- Radon risk assessment
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