Monument, Homewood Children, 25 Yards South West of Tunstall Church Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Tomb.
Monument, Homewood Children, 25 Yards South West of Tunstall Church Tower
- WRENN ID
- solitary-threshold-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TQ 895 618
- Coordinates
- 51.32442, 0.71942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a tomb dedicated to the Homewood children, built in 1828. It is made of stone and features a square base topped with a square, coved sarcophagus that rests on ball feet. An urn sits atop the sarcophagus. The monument is located 25 yards southwest of Tunstall Church Tower.
Local climate
Monument, Homewood Children, 25 Yards South West of Tunstall Church Tower 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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