Everest Headstone Approximately 9 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Martin is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Headstone.
Everest Headstone Approximately 9 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- third-garret-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 511 390
- Coordinates
- 51.13055, 0.1592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Everest headstone, dated 1776, is located approximately 9 meters south of the chancel of the Church of St Martin. This headstone commemorates members of the Everest family and is made of upright sandstone, standing about 400 millimeters high. The top of the headstone is shaped and features a carving of four winged cherubs' heads beneath a cloud. The inscription starts in Gothic lettering and continues in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, detailing the deaths of four children: Elizabeth, Peter, Hannah, and William, who passed away in 1775 and 1776.
Local climate
Everest Headstone Approximately 9 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Martin receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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