West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of James Baldwin Brown is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1993. Tomb.
West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of James Baldwin Brown
- WRENN ID
- gilded-brass-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood MP: Helen Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1993
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of James Baldwin Brown, Norwood Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 323 720
- Coordinates
- 51.43222, -0.09761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb of James Baldwin Brown, located in West Norwood Memorial Park, is a Grade II listed pedestal monument dating from around 1885, with an unknown designer. It is made of terracotta and features an eclectic Romanesque and Gothic style. The monument has a square pedestal adorned with attached Ionic colonettes at the corners and a nail-head frieze. There is an inset inscribed panel with a cable moulded border, flanked by rectangular inscribed panels with mitred corners. Above this, the structure has an arcaded square-plan base supported by twisted columns at the angles, featuring beaded round-headed arches with cusping and infilled with dog-tooth tablets. The shaft is panelled and tapering, topped with a cross that includes an intertwined IHS sacred monogram and a beaded nimbus. This tomb is noted for being one of the earliest examples of a celtic cross.
Local climate
West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of James Baldwin Brown sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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