Chest Tomb Single Metre East of the Chancel of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Rushcliffe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1987. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb Single Metre East of the Chancel of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- keen-passage-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rushcliffe
- Constituency
- Rushcliffe MP: James Naish (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Address
- Chest Tomb Single Metre East of the Chancel of Church of St Mary, Brookside, East Leake
- OS grid reference
- SK 551 262
- Coordinates
- 52.83065, -1.18217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located one metre east of the chancel of the Church of St. Mary, is dedicated to John Bley and dates from 1731. It is constructed of ashlar and slate, featuring a rectangular shape with panelled sides set on a chamfered plinth and topped with a moulded cornice. The south side of the tomb has an inscribed slate plaque. John Bley was a local benefactor.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Single Metre East of the 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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