Group of 3 Chest Tombs One Metre South of Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Chest tombs.
Group of 3 Chest Tombs One Metre South of Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- pitched-basalt-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 2000
- Type
- Chest tombs
- Address
- Group of 3 Chest Tombs One Metre South of Church of St Margaret, Abdon and Heath
- OS grid reference
- SO 575 866
- Coordinates
- 52.47567, -2.62664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of three chest tombs located one metre south of the Church of St Margaret, dating from the early to mid 19th century. They are made of sandstone ashlar.
The northern chest tomb features a plain lid with a fillet and beaded edge, plain corner piers, and end panels. The side panels have a semicircular scribed fielded inscription panel, and there is a plain chamfered plinth inset below the panels. This tomb commemorates Robert Bright, who died in 1819, and his wife Mary, who died in 1797.
The central chest tomb has a plain lid with a beaded edge, corner piers with vertical bands of horizontal fluting, and plain end and side panels. It also has a plain chamfered plinth and commemorates J..., the wife of Thomas Bradley, who died in 1814.
The southern chest tomb features a cambered lid, plain corner piers, and plain end and side panels. It has a plain chamfered plinth inset below the panels and commemorates Thomas Bradley, who died in 1841, and Robert Bradley, who died in 1869.
Local climate
Group of 3 Chest Tombs One Metre South of Church of St Margaret receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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