Group of 3 Headstones and Barrel Chest Tomb About 8 Metres North of Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1987. Tomb.

Group of 3 Headstones and Barrel Chest Tomb About 8 Metres North of Church of St Margaret

WRENN ID
bitter-stair-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1987
Type
Tomb
OS grid reference
TR 358 447
Coordinates
51.15365, 1.37183
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This listing describes a group of three headstones and a barrel chest tomb located about 8 meters north of the Church of St. Margaret. The headstones date from the early 18th century. The first headstone, for Sarah, stands about 2 feet high and features crude details including scrolls, a shield, a skull, and festooned sides. The second headstone is for Susanna Watson, who died in 1724, and is about 3 feet high. It has a scrolled cornice head adorned with crossed bones, an hourglass, a scythe, a bell, a book, a candle, and two skulls. The third headstone is for Stephen Manson, who died in 1728, and measures about 2½ feet high, featuring a scrolled and draped head along with a skull and bones. The barrel chest tomb, also from the early 18th century, has an illegible inscription and features fielded end panels with carved skull and bones.

Local climate

Group of 3 Headstones and Barrel Chest Tomb About 8 Metres North of Church of St Margaret receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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