Two Free Standing Wall Monuments and Headstone with Barrel Tomb, About 45 Metres North West of Church of St Laurence is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. Monument.
Two Free Standing Wall Monuments and Headstone with Barrel Tomb, About 45 Metres North West of Church of St Laurence
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-remnant-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TR 369 653
- Coordinates
- 51.33784, 1.40096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two free standing wall monuments and a headstone with a barrel tomb are located about 45 metres north-west of the Church of St. Laurence. The wall monuments and headstone commemorate Thomas Elgar, who died in 1851. The first monument is a free standing aedicule made of rendered masonry, standing about 8 feet high. It features panelled pilasters and an open pediment with a demi-angel on a foliate bracket, along with a panel below that has a moulded architrave. Approximately 10 metres to the west, there is a 6 feet high rendered brick wall that has a cornice shaped like a pediment and a wall plaque that is now illegible, with the apron missing. About 5 metres north of the Elgar tomb is a headstone for William Shottewoode, who died in 1806. This headstone is about 4 feet high and has a heart-shaped recess carved with an eagle on a rock, a sun to the left, and a motto to the right. The barrel tomb is attached to this headstone.
Local climate
Two Free Standing Wall Monuments and Headstone with Barrel Tomb, About 45 Metres North West of Church of St Laurence sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% 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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