Monument to Sophia Kimpton, Nunhead Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Monument to Sophia Kimpton, Nunhead Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- steep-panel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Peckham MP: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Sophia Kimpton, Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 354 756
- Coordinates
- 51.46317, -0.05152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to Sophia Kimpton, located in Nunhead Cemetery, is a funerary monument dating from around 1849. It commemorates Sophia Kimpton, who died in the same year. The monument is made of Portland stone and features a battered chest tomb with acroteria at the corners. On the front, there is a relief of an urn beneath a weeping willow within the pediment. Additionally, there are inscription panels that are recessed into the sides of the chest.
Local climate
Monument to Sophia Kimpton, Nunhead Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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