Tomb of Sir Richard Mayne is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Tomb of Sir Richard Mayne
- WRENN ID
- waiting-stronghold-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Sir Richard Mayne, Harrow Road W10
- OS grid reference
- TQ 234 825
- Coordinates
- 51.52839, -0.22218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of Sir Richard Mayne, who lived from 1786 to 1868 and was the founding commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is located in Kensal Green Cemetery. This monument was erected by the Metropolitan Police. It features a pink Peterhead granite obelisk that stands on an inscribed podium, which is above a two-stage base made of grey granite. This is a prominent and large-scale monument, notable for being the tallest obelisk in the cemetery, second only to one other.
Local climate
Tomb of Sir Richard Mayne sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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