West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Captin John Wimble 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 Captin John Wimble

WRENN ID
seventh-gravel-lichen
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 Captin John Wimble, Norwood Road Se27
OS grid reference
TQ 322 720
Coordinates
51.43218, -0.09845
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tomb of Captain John Wimble, located in West Norwood Memorial Park, is a chest tomb dating from around 1851, with the designer unknown. It is made of stone and features a rectangular shape with an enriched, stepped base. The base has a thick band of carved ship's rope moulding and supports the tomb, which is adorned with paired clasping pilasters that have palmette capitals at the corners. These pilasters support a coved cornice decorated with acanthus enrichment. The stepped top of the tomb is surmounted by a sculptured dismasted merchant ship.

Three side panels display high-quality relief carvings of ships at sea, with two depicted in violent storms. The inscriptions on the panels read: "Ship Maidstone off St. Helena 24 March 1840," "Ship London off Gangan 6th October 1832," and "Ship Florentinia off the Cape 21 June 1825." Captain Wimble spent 34 years at sea before his retirement.

Local climate

West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Captin John Wimble 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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