Chest Tomb of Nicholas Ferrar Circa 5 Metres West of St Johns Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb of Nicholas Ferrar Circa 5 Metres West of St Johns Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- weathered-terrace-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- TL 126 816
- Coordinates
- 52.42109, -0.34442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb of Nicholas Ferrar is located approximately 5 metres west of St John's Parish Church in Little Gidding. This tomb is made of limestone and features a roughly cut plain chamfered stone base and top, with plain side walls. There is no inscription on the tomb.
Local climate
Chest Tomb of Nicholas Ferrar Circa 5 Metres West of St Johns Parish Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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