West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of John Stevens 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 John Stevens
- WRENN ID
- endless-nave-sorrel
- 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 John Stevens, Norwood Road Se27
- OS grid reference
- TQ 324 719
- Coordinates
- 51.43148, -0.09639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of John Stevens, located in West Norwood Memorial Park, is a Grade II obelisk monument dating from around 1861. It was designed by Anderson & McKenzie of Aberdeen and is made of grey granite. The tomb features a square plan with a stepped base that supports an inscribed pedestal with battered sides and incised pediments. The obelisk itself is finely decorated with bands of guilloche, palmettes, and a fret pattern. John Stevens was an engineer known for inventing and patenting semaphore signals.
Local climate
West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of John Stevens 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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