Coombin Headstone Adjacent North Wall of the Aisle 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. Headstone.
Coombin Headstone Adjacent North Wall of the Aisle of the Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- carved-bailey-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Headstone
- Address
- Coombin Headstone Adjacent North Wall of the Aisle of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Speldhurst Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 553 414
- Coordinates
- 51.15123, 0.21988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coombin headstone, dated 1778, is located adjacent to the north wall of the aisle of the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Speldhurst. This headstone is an upright sandstone slab, approximately 300 millimeters high. Its shaped top features an inscription of crossed arrows. Below, a fielded panel displays Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, commemorating the death of John Coombin in 1778.
Local climate
Coombin Headstone Adjacent North Wall of the Aisle 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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