Group of 4 Chest Tombs Approximately 5 Metres North of Nave of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Tomb.
Group of 4 Chest Tombs Approximately 5 Metres North of Nave of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- winter-moat-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SJ 612 051
- Coordinates
- 52.64274, -2.57375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of four chest tombs located approximately 5 meters north of the nave of the Church of St Mary. They date from around 1819, 1822, 1832, and 1837 and are made of sandstone. Each tomb is rectangular in shape, featuring moulded plinths and chamfered top ledgers. The two tombs on the south side have square corner pilasters, while the two on the north side have fluted corner pilasters. The tombs to the north commemorate various members of the Pothan family, and those to the south commemorate members of the Mawn family.
Local climate
Group of 4 Chest Tombs Approximately 5 Metres North of Nave of Church of St Mary receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% 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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