Three Chest Tombs About 10-15 Metres North of Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. A 18th century Tomb.
Three Chest Tombs About 10-15 Metres North of Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- far-string-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Tomb
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- Three Chest Tombs About 10-15 Metres North of Church of St Lawrence, the Moor, Hawkhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 755 294
- Coordinates
- 51.03776, 0.50309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are three chest tombs located about 10 to 15 metres north of the Church of St Lawrence in Hawkhurst. One of the tombs is for Edmund Springett, who died in 1835. It features a platform with a moulded base, urn-shaped corner piers, and moulded side panels with chamfered corners, topped with a moulded slab. The other two tombs belong to members of the Chittenden family and date from the mid 18th century. The southern tomb has a moulded base, gadrooned urn-shaped corner piers, and raised and fielded panels with chamfered corners, also topped with a moulded slab. The northern tomb is identical except that its corner piers have a different design, featuring a fluted stem instead of a gadrooned bowl.
Local climate
Three Chest Tombs About 10-15 Metres North of Church of St Lawrence 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 greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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