Group of A Chest Tomb, Headstone and Row of 4 Headstones Approximately 8 Metres South of South West Corner of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. Tomb and headstones.
Group of A Chest Tomb, Headstone and Row of 4 Headstones Approximately 8 Metres South of South West Corner of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- third-granite-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1986
- Type
- Tomb and headstones
- OS grid reference
- SP 471 561
- Coordinates
- 52.20186, -1.31128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a group of a chest tomb, a headstone, and a row of four headstones located approximately 8 meters south of the southwest corner of the Church of St. Mary. The chest tomb dates from the late 18th century, while the headstones are from the late 17th century and early 18th century. They are made of moulded and carved ironstone.
The chest tomb features a moulded plinth, a projecting top, and shallow fielded panels. The headstone dated 1684 has a scrolled top adorned with two winged heads, a convex cartouche with a wreath, and flowers. Two early 18th-century headstones have a segmental top and a broken segmental pediment with a winged head, along with an entablature decorated with leaf scrolls. They also include composite half-columns and moulded fielded panels. An early to mid-18th-century headstone has a scrolled pediment and winged head, a fielded panel, and an indistinct patterned border.
Local climate
Group of A Chest Tomb, Headstone and Row of 4 Headstones Approximately 8 Metres South of South West Corner of Church of St Mary receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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