Unidentified Chest Tomb Approximately 0.5 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1985. Chest tomb.
Unidentified Chest Tomb Approximately 0.5 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- night-tracery-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Constituency
- Stafford MP: Leigh Ingham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1985
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SJ 725 373
- Coordinates
- 52.93283, -2.41
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an unidentified chest tomb dating from around 1790, located approximately 0.5 metres south of the tower of the Church of St Mary in Loggerheads. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features a rectangular plan. The tomb has a moulded capping with reeded corner pilasters and capping blocks. There are oval inscription panels on the long sides and one on the short side, but all were illegible at the time of the last survey in 1984.
Local climate
Unidentified Chest Tomb Approximately 0.5 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Mary receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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