Headstone with a relief carving of the Good Samaritan, in the churchyard of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 2018. Headstone.

Headstone with a relief carving of the Good Samaritan, in the churchyard of St Nicholas

WRENN ID
floating-casement-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sutton
Constituency
Sutton and Cheam MP: Luke Taylor (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 April 2018
Type
Headstone
Address
Headstone with a relief carving of the Good Samaritan, in the churchyard of St Nicholas, St Nicholas Church, St Nicholas Way, SM1 1ST
OS grid reference
TQ 257 641
Coordinates
51.36279, -0.19512
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This headstone, commemorating an unknown woman, dates from the late 18th century and is located to the north-west of St Nicholas Church. It is made of stone and faces west. The top features an eared segmental arch, with the ears supported by vertically elongated scrolls. The arch frames a relief carving that illustrates the parable of the Good Samaritan, showing the victim lying on the left, the Samaritan kneeling beside him in the center, and the head of a donkey tethered to a tree on the right. Although the relief is worn, it remains legible. The inscription below, which is in a variety of scripts, is mostly illegible, but the words "Wife of [...]" can be discerned above where the subject's name would have been, and the phrase "[...] Children / [Who] all died in their infancy" appears at the bottom. The sides of the headstone feature narrow horizontal reeding, known as corduroy work.

Local climate

Headstone with a relief carving of the Good Samaritan, in the churchyard of St Nicholas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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