Funerary Monument 10 Metres North West of St Nicholas Church is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1991. A C19 Funerary monument.
Funerary Monument 10 Metres North West of St Nicholas Church
- WRENN ID
- half-ashlar-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1991
- Type
- Funerary monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 742 685
- Coordinates
- 51.3896, 0.5032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This funerary monument, located 10 metres northwest of St Nicholas Church, dates from the early 19th century, with the earliest readable inscription commemorating Joseph Tuthill, who died in 1814. The monument features a stone plinth with inscriptions and a base with claw feet supporting an urn at the top. Surrounding the monument are cast-iron railings topped with spear points, which include turned angle uprights adorned with urns.
Local climate
Funerary Monument 10 Metres North West of St Nicholas Church 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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