Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Chad is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Chad
- WRENN ID
- still-rood-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SJ 928 509
- Coordinates
- 53.05578, -2.10827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a chest tomb located approximately 2 meters south of the nave of the Church of St Chad, dating from the early 19th century. It is made of stone and features inscribed sides, projecting angle piers, and a heavily projecting slab top. The top has a low-pitched hipped center block with acroteria at the corners.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Chad receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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