Tomb of Peter Borthwick and family, Brompton Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 2011. Tomb.
Tomb of Peter Borthwick and family, Brompton Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- waning-chimney-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 2011
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Peter Borthwick and family, Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, London
- OS grid reference
- TQ 256 780
- Coordinates
- 51.487, -0.19129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb of Peter Borthwick and family, located in Brompton Cemetery, is a Grade II listed structure made of Portland stone, featuring a frieze and plinth of green Forest of Dean stone, and pilasters of Peterhead granite. This neo-classical tomb is designed as a Roman sarcophagus, topped with a lid that mimics Roman tiles and supports a horizontal Latin cross. Each side of the sarcophagus has two niches, framed by pilasters, which originally contained stone figures of the four Evangelists, now decapitated. Between the niches are panels adorned with strigilated decoration and relief symbols of the conjoined Alpha and Omega, representing Christ, and the Chi-Rho, the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek, both significant symbols of the early Christian church. The front of the tomb displays the Borthwick coat of arms and inscriptions dedicated to Peter Borthwick (1804-1852), his wife Margaret (1805-1864), and their sons Christopher (1834-1865) and George Colville Borthwick (1840-1896). Additionally, there is a dedication to their daughter Harriet, who passed away in 1907, on one side of the tomb.
Local climate
Tomb of Peter Borthwick and family, Brompton Cemetery 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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