Lawson Headstone Approximately 17 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Headstone.
Lawson Headstone Approximately 17 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- western-gravel-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 135 546
- Coordinates
- 51.27987, -0.37345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lawson headstone, located approximately 17 metres east of the chancel of the Church of St Nicholas, is a small headstone from the mid-18th century. It commemorates Thomas Lawson, who died in 1737. The headstone is made of limestone and features a shaped top. The face is carved with an hourglass at the centre of a pair of raised wings, and it has an elegantly lettered inscription.
Local climate
Lawson Headstone Approximately 17 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Nicholas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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