Eleven Tombs in St Peter's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Tombs.
Eleven Tombs in St Peter's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- drifting-chalk-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Tombs
- Address
- Eleven Tombs in St Peter's Churchyard, Church Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 708 749
- Coordinates
- 51.46875, -0.98088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eleven tombs are located in St Peter's Churchyard, arranged irregularly against the side of a hill. A variety of headstones and slab stones are present, with the following notable table tombs: one dated 1858 to Charles Washington Lovegrove and family, featuring a tapering chest with a cross-gabled capping; one dated 1813 to John Flory Howard, with panelled end piers; one dated 1828 to Benjamin Lancaster, retaining cast iron arrow head rails and urn corner piers; a low table tomb dating to 1778; one dated 1802 to Mrs Van der Stegen, which is panelled; one dated 1765 to Margaret Bowd; one dated 1811 to the Stephens family vault, with reeded corner piers and a hipped chamfered slab; one dated 1802 to Elizabeth Lunn, which is in poor condition and has moulded panels, railings, and iron capping on standards; one dated 1848 to John Lawton; one dated 1790s to the Benwell family vault, with spear head rails and urn capped standards; and one C17 table tomb with chamfered eaves to capping.
Local climate
Eleven Tombs in St Peter's Churchyard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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