Hooker Memorial Immediately West of the North Transept of the Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Memorial.

Hooker Memorial Immediately West of the North Transept of the Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
rusted-string-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1990
Type
Memorial
Address
Hooker Memorial Immediately West of the North Transept of the Church of All Saints, High Street, Brenchley and Matfield
OS grid reference
TQ 679 416
Coordinates
51.14989, 0.40025
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Hooker Memorial, located immediately west of the north transept of the Church of All Saints, is a Grade II listed memorial likely dating from the 1860s. Designed in the Early English style and made of Portland stone, it takes the form of a large, coped, cruciform chest. The top features a foliated cross carved in relief, and the oversailing lid is adorned with a band of stiff-leaf foliage below it. The sides of the chest are decorated with blind trefoil-headed arcading supported by shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. Inscriptions on the memorial, the earliest of which is dated 1830, commemorate members of the Hooker family. This memorial is noted for its unusual and ambitious Gothic Revival design, situated in an outstanding churchyard.

Local climate

Hooker Memorial Immediately West of the North Transept of the Church of All Saints receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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