Burrows Chest Tomb Approximately 1.5 Metres North of the Tower 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. Chest tomb.
Burrows Chest Tomb Approximately 1.5 Metres North of the Tower of the Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- carved-grate-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- TQ 553 414
- Coordinates
- 51.15114, 0.21963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Burrows chest tomb, located approximately 1.5 metres north of the tower of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, is a rectangular tomb dated 1807, commemorating Sarah Burrows. It is made of white marble and rests on a moulded plinth. The flat lid features moulded edges, and the corners are adorned with fluted balusters. The ends and sides of the tomb have oval panels surrounded by radiating lines. Inscriptions on the north and south sides begin in Gothic lettering and continue in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, with some italicized text. The northern inscription notes the death of Sarah Burrows in 1807, while the south side records the death of her husband Thomas in 1810. Their daughter Sarah, who died in 1843, is commemorated on the east end panel.
Local climate
Burrows Chest Tomb Approximately 1.5 Metres North of the Tower 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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