Three Porter headstones approximately 19 metres west of the tower of the Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Monument.
Three Porter headstones approximately 19 metres west of the tower of the Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- drifting-sill-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Three Porter headstones approximately 19 metres west of the tower of the Church of St Mary, TN11 0DB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 634 497
- Coordinates
- 51.22324, 0.33881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Three Porter headstones are located approximately 19 metres west of the tower of the Church of St Mary. These adjacent headstones date between 1765 and 1789 and commemorate various members of the Porter family. All three are made of sandstone and feature upright slabs with shaped heads, and they are in very good condition.
The leftmost headstone stands about 750mm high and has a curvilinear double head with a recessed front panel. The inscription is presented in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, divided into three sections. There is a separate column under each head and a full-width section at the base. The left head features a crude carving of a human profile above the memorial to John Porter, who died in 1776. The right head has a carved pattern above the record of his wife Mary, whose date of death is illegible. The bottom section lists their two sons and three daughters.
The other two headstones have similarly shaped heads carved in low relief. Their inscriptions begin in Gothic lettering, but the majority is in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. The smaller headstone, approximately 700mm high, is in memory of Elizabeth Porter, who died in 1765, and features a carved winged cherub head with trumpets behind it. The right headstone stands about 1.2 metres high and is carved with a scene of the Good Samaritan. It records the death of Elizabeth Porter, whose date is illegible, along with her infant children: 10-month-old Mary, who died in 1786, and 9-week-old Henry, who died in 1789.
Local climate
Three Porter headstones approximately 19 metres west of the tower of the Church of St Mary receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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