Tomb of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. Tomb.
Tomb of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- brooding-balcony-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Churchyard, the Square, Birchington
- OS grid reference
- TR 301 690
- Coordinates
- 51.37354, 1.30573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is located in the churchyard at Birchington-on-Sea and was designed by Ford Madox Brown. Rossetti passed away on 9 April 1882. The tomb features a stone Celtic cross, with the arms and stem connected by a circle. At the bottom of the stone is a representation of St Luke, the patron saint of painters, and above this is an ox, which is the emblem of the Evangelist. The design includes scrolled motifs.
Local climate
Tomb of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Churchyard 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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