Pair of Mills Headstones Approximately 9 Metres South of the Nave of the Church of St Thomas A Becket is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Monument.
Pair of Mills Headstones Approximately 9 Metres South of the Nave of the Church of St Thomas A Becket
- WRENN ID
- late-outpost-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 637 445
- Coordinates
- 51.1763, 0.34102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of adjacent headstones located approximately 9 meters south of the nave of the Church of St Thomas A Becket. Both headstones date from the late 18th century and commemorate members of the Mills family. The northern headstone is an upright slab of sandstone, standing about 1.25 meters high. Its shaped head features scrolls and is carved with a depiction of a child reading a book. The inscription starts in Gothic lettering but predominantly uses Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, recording the death of William Mills in 1771. Next to it is a simpler stone with a shaped head, standing approximately 800 millimeters high. This stone is inscribed in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering and marks the death of 4-year-old William Mills in 1780.
Local climate
Pair of Mills Headstones Approximately 9 Metres South of the Nave of the Church of St Thomas A Becket receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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