Unidentified Body Stone Tomb West of South East Gate, St Mattias is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Unidentified Body Stone Tomb West of South East Gate, St Mattias
- WRENN ID
- hollow-frieze-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Unidentified Body Stone Tomb West of South East Gate, St Mattias, Woodstock Terrace
- OS grid reference
- TQ 377 808
- Coordinates
- 51.50934, -0.01573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century body stone tomb located west of the south-east gate of St Mattias in Poplar. The tomb is made of stone and features a headstone and footstone, both with segmental arched and shaped heads that are bolted to the bodystone. The west side of the headstone has a weathered and illegible inscription.
Local climate
Unidentified Body Stone Tomb West of South East Gate, 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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- No sale records on file
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