Chest Tomb 9 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1997. Monument.
Chest Tomb 9 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- cold-bronze-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1997
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SP 113 705
- Coordinates
- 52.33255, -1.83448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located 9 meters south of the chancel of the Church of St Mary Magdalene, dates from around 1776 to 1799. It is made of limestone ashlar and measures approximately 1.75 meters high, 1 meter wide, and 2 meters long. The tomb features a stepped base and a chamfered plinth. There are two fielded panels on the long sides and one on the short sides, with brattished decoration on the frieze. The surmounting slab has a hollow-moulding along the underside of its edge, and there is an eroded inscription. All the listed items in the churchyard are considered to form a group.
Local climate
Chest Tomb 9 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Mary Magdalene receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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