Anonymous Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of the Porch of the Church of St Martin is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Headstone.
Anonymous Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of the Porch of the Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-rood-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 511 390
- Coordinates
- 51.13056, 0.15913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a triple headstone located approximately 5 meters south of the porch of the Church of St Martin, dating from around 1762. It commemorates members of the same family, although the surname is not recorded. The headstone is made of broad upright sandstone and stands about 500 millimeters high. It features a triple-headed shape at the top, with each head carved with the same design: a winged cherub head adorned with rosettes above crossed trumpets. There are three inscriptions, each starting in Gothic lettering and followed by Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. The panels, from left to right, record the deaths of an infant named Thomas in 1756, Mary in 1760, and Elizabeth in 1762.
Local climate
Anonymous Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of the Porch of the Church of St Martin receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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