Pair of Coyte Headstones Adjacent East Wall of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Headstones.
Pair of Coyte Headstones Adjacent East Wall of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-tin-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Headstones
- Address
- Pair of Coyte Headstones Adjacent East Wall of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Speldhurst Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 553 414
- Coordinates
- 51.15115, 0.22013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of adjacent headstones located against the east wall of the chancel of the Church of St Mary the Virgin. They are dated 1733 and 1735 and commemorate William and Ann Coyte. Both headstones are similar upright slabs made of sandstone, standing approximately 650 millimeters high. Each has a shaped head with carvings above the inscriptions, which are in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. The left headstone, dedicated to Ann Coyte who died in 1735, features a carving of a crowned skull with wings. The right headstone, for William Coyte who died in 1733, is adorned with a carving of an anchor in a roundel, flanked by scrolls.
Local climate
Pair of Coyte Headstones Adjacent East Wall of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary the Virgin receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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