Prendergast and De Roll Chest Tombs Immediately West of the Porch of the Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Tomb.
Prendergast and De Roll Chest Tombs Immediately West of the Porch of the Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- brooding-courtyard-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Prendergast and De Roll Chest Tombs Immediately West of the Porch of the Church of St Lawrence, High Street, Bidborough
- OS grid reference
- TQ 565 431
- Coordinates
- 51.16658, 0.23714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Prendergast and de Roll chest tombs are located immediately west of the porch of the Church of St Lawrence in Bidborough. These tombs date from the early 19th century and are made of freestone. The northern tomb is positioned against the south wall of the church and features a rectangular shape with moulded corner pilasters and a coped lid. It commemorates Dorathy Prendergast, who died in 1821. To the south of this tomb is a low sarcophagus with a steeply-coped lid that commemorates Louis Robert Roll, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, who died in 1813. A long verse inscribed on the tomb, transcribed by Skinner, includes the lines: "He stood unchanged at Fortune's bitter frown,/that bore the House of Bourbon down;/He cheered its exile, gained its just applause,/And died at last a martyr to its cause."
Local climate
Prendergast and De Roll Chest Tombs Immediately West of the Porch of the Church of St Lawrence receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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