Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres to South of Chancel of Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres to South of Chancel of Church of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- tired-keystone-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SO 352 860
- Coordinates
- 52.46826, -2.95492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located approximately 2 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, dates from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed of ashlar and features a stepped base, sunken panels, shaped quarter-baluster corners, and a moulded cornice. The inscription on the tomb was illegible during the last survey in July 1984.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres to South of Chancel of Church of St Michael and All Angels receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Chest Tomb 5 Yards North of Vestry of Church of St Michael
- 2 Unidenified Monument, About 9m East of Vestry in Churchyard of Church of St Michael and All Angels
- 3 Unidentified Chest Tomb, 4 Metres East of South Porch, Churchyard of Church of St Michael and All Angels
- 4 Tomb Chest in Courtyard 16 Yds SSW from Porch of Church of St. Michael (Thomas Spier)
- 5 Illegible Chest Tomb Approximately 18 Metres North of the Tower of the Church of St Michael
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings