Tomb of Sir Charles Newton 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 Sir Charles Newton

WRENN ID
tall-bastion-shade
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 Sir Charles Newton, Harrow Road W10
OS grid reference
TQ 231 824
Coordinates
51.52798, -0.22609
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tomb of Sir Charles Newton, who died in 1886, is located in Kensal Green Cemetery. It features a marble headstone that was fallen and broken at the time of the survey in 1998. The headstone has an anthemion terminal and an inset relief of a seated woman, which may be a re-used antique piece, designed to imitate an Attic grave-stele from the 4th century BC. Sir Charles Newton was a prominent classical archaeologist known for discovering the tomb of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus, one of the wonders of the Ancient world, and he served as an important Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum.

Local climate

Tomb of Sir Charles Newton 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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