Row of 3 Driver Headstones Approximately 6 Metres South of the Tower of the Old Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Monument.
Row of 3 Driver Headstones Approximately 6 Metres South of the Tower of the Old Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- solitary-pillar-lake
- 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 625 429
- Coordinates
- 51.16285, 0.32393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of three headstones located approximately 6 meters south of the tower of the Old Church of St Peter in Pembury. The headstones date between 1709 and 1780 and commemorate members of the Driver family. Each headstone is an upright sandstone slab with curvilinear shaped heads, standing between approximately 500 millimeters and 1 meter high. They are inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, with the leftmost headstone, dedicated to Elizabeth Driver, featuring italics. The left headstone is the tallest and has a double head, each carved with a winged cherub's head in profile facing each other. The inscription on this stone is very worn, but the legible date of 1780 may refer to the death of a relative. The center headstone also has a double head, with a recessed front and each head adorned with an inscribed floral pattern. This inscription records the death of Robert Driver in 1709. The right headstone has a recessed front as well and notes the death of another Robert Driver in 1719.
Local climate
Row of 3 Driver Headstones Approximately 6 Metres South of the Tower of the Old Church of St Peter 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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