Tomb of Joseph Westwood is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1999. Funerary monument.
Tomb of Joseph Westwood
- WRENN ID
- ragged-cobalt-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1999
- Type
- Funerary monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 368 823
- Coordinates
- 51.52343, -0.02844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of Joseph Westwood is a funerary monument located in Tower Hamlets Cemetery, commemorating Joseph Westwood, who died in 1883. Made of Portland stone, the monument features a Decorated wayside cross with a crocketed spire supported by four open arches and angle buttresses. It has a square plinth with stepped angle buttresses and recessed ogee inscription panels on each face. The finials are made of metal. Originally, an allegorical statue of a female stood within the canopy. The lowest base has a tiled surface, and there are low, two-tier cast-iron railings with bulbous finials that survive in part. Westwood was the head of a shipbuilding and engineering firm, and this monument is the most imposing in the cemetery, prominently situated at one of the main crossroads.
Local climate
Tomb of Joseph Westwood 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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