West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Sir Henry Bessemer 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 Sir Henry Bessemer

WRENN ID
sharp-sentry-violet
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 Sir Henry Bessemer, Norwood Road Se27
OS grid reference
TQ 321 720
Coordinates
51.43202, -0.09971
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tomb of Sir Henry Bessemer is located in West Norwood Memorial Park and dates from around 1898, with the designer unknown. It features a headstone made of marble and pink granite, which has a round-arched top, shaped angles, and a pink granite colonette on each side. Above the inscription is a carved chaplet. The rectangular grave slab has a hipped pink granite top. Bessemer was a renowned engineer and prolific inventor, best known for his process of converting pig iron into steel, which transformed the industry and was adopted worldwide.

Local climate

West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Sir Henry Bessemer 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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