Tomb of John Smart, St Mattias is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Tomb of John Smart, St Mattias
- WRENN ID
- unlit-wicket-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of John Smart, St Mattias, Woodstock Terrace
- OS grid reference
- TQ 377 808
- Coordinates
- 51.5099, -0.01628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of John Smart, located at St Mattias in Poplar, is a chest tomb dating from around 1777, with the designer remaining unknown. It is constructed of stone and showcases a Neo-classical style. The tomb has a rectangular plan, featuring long sides adorned with carved inscribed roundels that are flanked by pilasters at the corners. The short ends have recessed oval panels, also flanked by fluted pilasters. A continuous moulded cornice projects forward above the pilasters, and the tomb is topped with a shallow pyramidal cover. John Smart was known as a distiller from Limehouse.
Local climate
Tomb of John Smart, 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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