Memorial to Thomas Petter to North of Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Monument.
Memorial to Thomas Petter to North of Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- far-cupola-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Memorial to Thomas Petter to North of Baptist Chapel, Rye Road, Sandhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 808 280
- Coordinates
- 51.02338, 0.57753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone memorial to Thomas Petter, located to the north of the Baptist Chapel on Rye Road. It dates from around 1756 and features a rounded top adorned with floral decoration. Thomas Petter served as the minister here, and it is presumed that there was an earlier building on the site of the current Baptist Chapel.
Local climate
Memorial to Thomas Petter to North of Baptist Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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