West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Reverened Charles Haddon Spurgeon is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1981. Tomb.

West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Reverened Charles Haddon Spurgeon

WRENN ID
hallowed-corbel-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lambeth
Constituency
Dulwich and West Norwood MP: Helen Hayes (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 March 1981
Type
Tomb
Address
West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Reverened Charles Haddon Spurgeon, West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Reverend Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Norwood Road, Se27
OS grid reference
TQ 323 721
Coordinates
51.43284, -0.09681
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tomb of Reverend Charles Haddon Spurgeon is located in West Norwood Memorial Park and dates from around 1892, with the designer unknown. It is a chest tomb set on a high plinth made of grey granite with stone dressings. The massive granite plinth features quoins made of lighter granite and a central inset inscribed panel. The tomb has a stepped base and polished granite columns with white stone bases and foliated capitals at the corners, supporting an overhanging pitched lid. The sides of the tomb have inscribed panels, with the front panel displaying a finely sculptured marble portrait bust in a tondo. Below the tomb, resting on the steps, is a sculptured pink granite cushion with tasselled corners, featuring an open Bible at Timothy 7:8. Spurgeon was a popular preacher, known for attracting more mourners than any other funeral in the cemetery's history.

Local climate

West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Reverened Charles Haddon Spurgeon 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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