Group of Eight Chest Tombs Between About 7 and 25 Yards South of the Tower of the Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. A Georgian Chest tombs.
Group of Eight Chest Tombs Between About 7 and 25 Yards South of the Tower of the Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- roaming-remnant-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Chest tombs
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- SO 563 248
- Coordinates
- 51.92079, -2.63575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of eight chest tombs made of sandstone ashlar is located between about 7 and 25 yards south of the tower of the Church of St Peter.
The tombs commemorate several individuals:
- Robert Jones, who died in 1731, features thick stepped flat capping, large corner balusters, and advanced side panels.
- Another Robert Jones, who died in 1778, has flat capping, corner balusters, and quadrant corners on the margins of the side panels.
- A tomb for William, who died in 1794, is similar to the previous one.
- Margaret Beavan, who died in 1799, is remembered with flat moulded capping, gadrooned corner balusters, and quadrant corners with paterae on the margins of the side panels.
- Susan Powell, who died in 1760, has flat capping, corner balusters, and advanced side panels.
- Hanna Stone, who died in 1818, features low flat moulded capping, balustered end panels, and quadrant corners on the side panels.
- John, who died in 1808, is commemorated with flat capping, corner balusters, and oval margins on the side panels.
- The southernmost tomb, likely from the very early 19th century, has illegible inscriptions, hipped capping, and gadrooned corner balusters.
Local climate
Group of Eight Chest Tombs Between About 7 and 25 Yards South of the Tower of the Church of St Peter receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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