Tomb of Owen Jones 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 Owen Jones

WRENN ID
tall-gateway-onyx
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 Owen Jones, Harrow Road W10
OS grid reference
TQ 234 825
Coordinates
51.528, -0.22204
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tomb of architect Owen Jones, who died in 1874, is located in Kensal Green Cemetery. It was designed by Owen Jones himself and features a Greek stele made of Carrara marble, topped with an eared anthemion finial and a coped ledger slab. Owen Jones was an important figure in High Victorian design, known for overseeing the 1851 Great Exhibition and for authoring The Grammar of Ornament.

Local climate

Tomb of Owen Jones 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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