Group of 2 Headstones and 2 Chest Tombs About 20 Metres North of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Memorial.
Group of 2 Headstones and 2 Chest Tombs About 20 Metres North of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- spare-solder-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- TQ 724 378
- Coordinates
- 51.11394, 0.46167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of two headstones and two chest tombs is located about 20 metres north of the Church of St Mary in Goudhurst. The first headstone is dedicated to an unknown individual named Williams, the wife of Thomas Williams, and dates from the mid-18th century. It is made of stone and stands about 4 feet high, featuring scrolled shoulders on pedestals and a scrolled head, adorned with two cherubs' heads in profile. The second headstone is for Thomas Williams, who died in 1783. This stone is also about 4 feet high and displays rococo scrolled shoulders and head, along with motifs that include two cherubs' heads, a rayed crown, a serpent biting its tail, and an open book. This headstone is more refined in execution compared to his wife's. Nearby are two simple early 18th-century chest tombs, which have crudely ogee moulded top slabs resting on monolithic bases.
Local climate
Group of 2 Headstones and 2 Chest Tombs About 20 Metres North of Church of St Mary receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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