Stearns Mausoleum, Nunhead Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Mausoleum.
Stearns Mausoleum, Nunhead Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- narrow-slate-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Peckham MP: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Mausoleum
- Address
- Stearns Mausoleum, Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 354 754
- Coordinates
- 51.46138, -0.05163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stearns Mausoleum, located in Nunhead Cemetery, is a Grade II listed structure built around 1900 in memory of Laura Stearns, who died in the same year. The mausoleum is constructed from Doulton's terracotta and features a Romanesque arched doorway beneath a crowstep gable. The side walls are adorned with an arcade of three Romanesque openings, topped by an embattled parapet that has arched openings supported by squat colonnettes, with projecting water spouts below. The lower parts of the walls are battered outwards. Inside, there were shelves for coffins, which have since been removed. Historically, Mrs. Laura Stearns was from Twickenham and her remains were later buried elsewhere in the cemetery in 1931. This mausoleum is notable for being the only one in Nunhead Cemetery.
Local climate
Stearns Mausoleum, 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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