Group of 3 Headstones to Bowles Family About 15 Metres North West 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. Headstones.
Group of 3 Headstones to Bowles Family About 15 Metres North West of Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- young-oriel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1987
- Type
- Headstones
- OS grid reference
- TR 358 447
- Coordinates
- 51.15368, 1.37127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of three headstones belonging to the Bowles family, located about 15 metres north-west of the Church of St. Margaret. The first headstone is for Thomas Bowles, who died in 1758, and stands approximately 3½ feet high. It features a scrolled and wreathed head, adorned with a skull and a crude cherub. The second headstone commemorates Phineas Bowles, who died in 1747, and is about 3 feet high, with a double segmental head decorated with two death heads, bones, and an hourglass. The third headstone is for Henry Bowles, who died in 1761, also around 3 feet high, with a scrolled cornice head wreathed with double cherubs.
Local climate
Group of 3 Headstones to Bowles Family About 15 Metres North West 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Row of 3 Headstones 20 Metres North of Church of St Peter and St Paul
- 2 Group of 4 Headstones About 10-15 Metres South West of Church of St Laurence
- 3 Row of 3 Headstones, About 20 Metres North West of Church of St Mary
- 4 Group of 6 Headstones About 5-10 Metres West of Church of St Peter and St Paul
- 5 Monument to Henry Bowles, 1 Metre East of East Window of Church
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings