Group of 8 Chest Tombs and One Pedestal Tomb About 3 to 10 Yards South West of South West Corner 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. Tomb.
Group of 8 Chest Tombs and One Pedestal Tomb About 3 to 10 Yards South West of South West Corner of the Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-solder-umber
- 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
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SO 563 248
- Coordinates
- 51.92084, -2.63587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of eight chest tombs and one pedestal tomb is located about 3 to 10 yards south-west of the south-west corner of the Church of St Peter.
The chest tomb for John Addis, who died in 1837, is made of sandstone ashlar and features hipped capping and corner balusters. The chest tomb for Jane Ambrey, who died in 1802, is also sandstone ashlar with hipped capping. The chest tomb for Mary Hardwick, who died in 1827, has curved hipped capping and is made of sandstone ashlar. The chest tomb for Mary Ambury, who died in 1827, features hipped capping with corner balusters and is made of sandstone ashlar. The chest tomb for Joseph Ambury, who died in 1824, has flat capping and corner balusters, constructed from sandstone ashlar. The chest tomb for Thomas Hardwick, who died in 1848, features hipped curved and stepped capping with fluted columnar corner posts, and is made of sandstone ashlar. The chest tomb for Thomas Watham, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, is made of sandstone ashlar and has hipped capping, oval margins, and corner paterae on the side panels, with bulbous end panels featuring central rosettes. The chest tomb for Catherine Hardwick, who died in 1845, is made of sandstone ashlar and is styled similarly to that of Thomas Hardwick.
The pedestal tomb for Thomas Watham, dated around 1840, is made of sandstone ashlar and features stepped capping with a missing finial and oval margins on the side panels.
Local climate
Group of 8 Chest Tombs and One Pedestal Tomb About 3 to 10 Yards South West of South West Corner 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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