Tomb of Hugh Mcintosh,St Mattias is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Tomb of Hugh Mcintosh,St Mattias
- WRENN ID
- carved-latch-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Hugh Mcintosh,St Mattias, Woodstock Terrace, E14 0AD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 377 808
- Coordinates
- 51.50978, -0.0158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of Hugh McIntosh, located at St Mattias in Poplar, is a chest tomb dating from around 1840, with the designer unknown. It is constructed from stone and features a distinctly severe style influenced by Egyptian design. The tomb sits on a cambered base and has a rectangular moulded plinth with battered sides, each side adorned with raised rectangular panels, which are inscribed on the long sides. A continuous coved cornice supports a flat cover. Hugh McIntosh was known as a dock contractor.
Local climate
Tomb of Hugh Mcintosh,St Mattias 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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