Tomb of John Smith is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1999. Tomb.
Tomb of John Smith
- WRENN ID
- tired-doorway-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1999
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TQ 367 823
- Coordinates
- 51.52379, -0.02989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of John Smith is a funerary monument located in Tower Hamlets Cemetery, commemorating John Smith who died in 1846. It is made of Portland stone and features a standing figure of a mourning woman holding a scroll and leaning on a circular pedestal topped with an urn. This pedestal is placed on a square plinth with inset corners, which stands on a base made of York stone. This tomb is notable as one of the few Neo-classical monuments in the cemetery that includes figure sculpture.
Local climate
Tomb of John Smith 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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