Tomb of Edmund Waller South East of Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1985. Tomb.
Tomb of Edmund Waller South East of Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints
- WRENN ID
- swift-cobble-hyssop
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Edmund Waller South East of Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints, Windsor End, Beaconsfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 945 899
- Coordinates
- 51.60079, -0.6367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb of Edmund Waller, a late 17th-century poet who lived at Hall Barn, is located southeast of the Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints in Beaconsfield. This ornate tomb features a marble obelisk supported by four winged skulls, all resting on a chest tomb-style base made of grey stone. The base is decorated with relief carvings of drapery and flaming urns. An iron spearhead railing surrounds the tomb.
Local climate
Tomb of Edmund Waller South East of Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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