Chest Tomb to William Durrant, About 15 Metres East 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 Georgian Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb to William Durrant, About 15 Metres East of Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- small-kitchen-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- TQ 756 294
- Coordinates
- 51.0375, 0.5037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb is dedicated to William Durrant, who died around 1800, and is located about 15 metres east of the Church of St Lawrence in Hawkhurst. The tomb sits on a stone platform and features a moulded base. It has urn-shaped moulded corner piers and fielded side and end panels that are decorated with Greek key patterns at the corners. The top slab is also moulded.
Local climate
Chest Tomb to William Durrant, About 15 Metres East 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Row of 4 Durrant Headstones About 1m East of the Porch of the Church of St Peter and St James
- 2 Dampier Chest Tomb, in Churchyard About 7 Metres West South West of the West Tower, Church of Saint Mary
- 3 Pair of Chest Tombs 1 to 2 Metres South of West Tower of Church of St Lawrence
- 4 John Collett Chest Tomb, in Churchyard 2 Metres North of Nave, Church of St Lawrence
- 5 Table Tomb 5 Metres South of Church Aisle
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings