Tomb of Thomas Champion, Cheltenham Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1982. Tomb.
Tomb of Thomas Champion, Cheltenham Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- first-sandstone-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1982
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Thomas Champion, Cheltenham Cemetery, Bouncers Lane
- OS grid reference
- SO 971 231
- Coordinates
- 51.90695, -2.04227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of Thomas Champion, located in Cheltenham Cemetery, was designed around 1896, likely by architect W.H. Knight. This tomb features polychrome masonry in the High Victorian Gothic style. It has a stone canopy supported by squat columns made of polished granite, adorned with leaf capitals and polychrome voussoirs. The arches on the long sides of the tomb are decorated with scallop and leaf patterns along the roll moulds, and it has crocketed gables. Statues of the four Evangelists are positioned on column pedestals at the corners, although three of these statues are missing. The tomb includes a wide table with lobed enrichment and is noted as the finest monument in this cemetery. Historically, W.H. Knight won the competition to design the cemetery in 1862.
Local climate
Tomb of Thomas Champion, Cheltenham Cemetery receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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