Chest Tomb 20 metres south of Lychgate to All Saints Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Tomb.
Chest Tomb 20 metres south of Lychgate to All Saints Church
- WRENN ID
- small-lime-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SK 415 293
- Coordinates
- 52.86026, -1.38505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located 20 metres south of the lychgate to All Saints Church, dates from around 1740 and features later inscriptions. It is made of sandstone and slate. The tomb has a moulded base set over a plain plinth, with raised and fielded slate panels on the long sides, plain raised panels at the ends, and shaped corner piers with gadrooned bases. The north side includes inscriptions for Joseph Greaves, who died in 1819, and his wife Anne, as well as another inscription for Anne Greaves, who died in 1827. The slate top, which has moulded edges, bears a Latin inscription for Joseph Greaves, who died in 1740 at the age of 61.
Local climate
Chest Tomb 20 metres south of Lychgate to All Saints Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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