Grave of Thomas Port, 12 Yards West of South Porch of the Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Harrow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1983. Grave.
Grave of Thomas Port, 12 Yards West of South Porch of the Parish Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- distant-sentry-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harrow
- Constituency
- Harrow West MP: Gareth Thomas (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 May 1983
- Type
- Grave
- OS grid reference
- TQ 153 874
- Coordinates
- 51.57405, -0.33743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The grave of Thomas Port is located 12 yards west of the south porch of the Parish Church of St Mary in Harrow-on-the-Hill. It dates from 1838 and features a slate headstone. The inscription reads: "To the memory of THOMAS PORT Son of John Port of Burton-on-Trent, in the County of Staffordshire, Hat Manufacturer, who near this town had both his legs severed from his body by the railway train, with great fortitude he bore a second amputation by the surgeons and died from loss of blood, August 7 1838 Aged 33 years." The epitaph continues with a poetic tribute: "Bright rose the morn and vig'rous rose poor Port, Gay on the Train he used his wonted sport, Ere noon arrived his mangled form they bore, with pain distorted and o'erwhelmed with gore, when evening came to close the fatal day, a mutilated corpse the sufferer lay."
Local climate
Grave of Thomas Port, 12 Yards West of South Porch of the Parish Church of St Mary 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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