Tomb of Admiral Sir John Ross is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 2001. Tomb.

Tomb of Admiral Sir John Ross

WRENN ID
low-hearth-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 June 2001
Type
Tomb
Address
Tomb of Admiral Sir John Ross, Harrow Road W10
OS grid reference
TQ 231 825
Coordinates
51.52799, -0.22576
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tomb of Admiral Sir John Ross, who died in 1856, is located in Kensal Green Cemetery. It features a Carrara marble cross entwined with an anchor and chain, set upon a cairn and placed on a stepped pedestal. This design, combining the anchor and cross on a cairn, symbolizes Christian hope and fortitude and became a common theme in later Victorian funerary sculpture. This tomb is an early example of that style. Admiral Ross, referred to as "THE ARCTIC EXPLORER," left retirement to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin between 1850 and 1851.

Local climate

Tomb of Admiral Sir John Ross 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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