Tomb of Wyndham Lewis is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 2001. Monument.

Tomb of Wyndham Lewis

WRENN ID
slow-vault-indigo
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
Monument
Address
Tomb of Wyndham Lewis, Harrow Road W10
OS grid reference
TQ 236 825
Coordinates
51.52799, -0.21856
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Tomb of Wyndham Lewis, located in Kensal Green Cemetery, is a monument dedicated to Wyndham Lewis, who died in 1838. It is constructed from Portland stone and features a pyramid-obelisk design set on a raised base. Each face of the tomb has projecting panels adorned with reliefs of armorial designs or lotus flowers. To the west, there is a sandstone slab covering the vault. Wyndham Lewis was a Tory Member of Parliament, and his widow later married Benjamin Disraeli. For further reference, see A.H. Hakewill's "Modern Tombs, Gleaned from the Public Cemeteries of London" published in 1851, plate 4.

Local climate

Tomb of Wyndham Lewis 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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