Chest Tomb Approximately 11 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1991. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 11 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- broken-lime-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1991
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SK 696 262
- Coordinates
- 52.82889, -0.96833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, made of red sandstone, is located approximately 11 meters southeast of the chancel of the Church of St Mary in Nether Broughton. It features slate inscription plaques and has a tapering shape with trumpet fluting at the corners. The inscription panel commemorates Mary Clarke, who died in 1829, and is signed by Collingwood Grantham.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 11 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Mary 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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