Abbey Cemetery Pearce Tomb is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 2010. Tomb.
Abbey Cemetery Pearce Tomb
- WRENN ID
- riven-portal-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 2010
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Abbey Cemetery Pearce Tomb, Ralph Allen Drive
- OS grid reference
- ST 758 635
- Coordinates
- 51.37049, -2.34876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pearce Tomb, located in Abbey Cemetery, is a ledger tomb dedicated to Joseph Channing Pearce, who died in 1847 at the age of 35. It is made of polished pink Peterhead granite and is supported by four buns on a plinth of Pennant stone. The tomb is signed by "Rogers, Bath." Pearce was a surgeon from Bradford-on-Avon, known for his dedication to studying the work of God and for amassing a large collection of fossils at his residence, Montague House, in Lambridge. The tomb can be found in section I.E.1.2.3 of the cemetery.
Local climate
Abbey Cemetery Pearce Tomb receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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