Bailey Tomb, 10 Yards North East of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1984. Tomb.
Bailey Tomb, 10 Yards North East of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- riven-span-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TQ 594 569
- Coordinates
- 51.28928, 0.28594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bailey Tomb, located 10 yards northeast of the Church of St Peter, is a heraldic tomb built in 1869 by William Burges for the Bailey family. It features a vault beneath and is constructed from Portland stone. The sarcophagus has hipped ridge coping and is adorned with a stencilled band that displays the arms of the Bailey family from Ightham Place and the James family from Ightham Court. The tomb stands on bracketed runners within a wide plinth surround.
Local climate
Bailey Tomb, 10 Yards North East of Church of St Peter receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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