Chest Tomb 8 Metres South of South Porch of Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Gedling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Tomb.
Chest Tomb 8 Metres South of South Porch of Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- fossil-shingle-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gedling
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SK 545 515
- Coordinates
- 53.05815, -1.18725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located 8 meters south of the south porch of the Church of St. James, dates from 1695 and is constructed from ashlar stone. The tomb features a moulded base and corners, with panels on the long sides that have ornamented borders and crossed fleur de lys shafts. The ends of the tomb contain panels that display a stag's head and a rosette. The lid is incised and mostly illegible, but it is also dated 1695.
Local climate
Chest Tomb 8 Metres South of South Porch of Church of St James 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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