Chest Tombs A and B Circa 15 Feet to East of Chancel of St John's Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Tomb.
Chest Tombs A and B Circa 15 Feet to East of Chancel of St John's Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- upper-spandrel-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Chest Tombs A and B Circa 15 Feet to East of Chancel of St John's Parish Church, the Green, Duxford
- OS grid reference
- TL 478 462
- Coordinates
- 52.09441, 0.15662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chest tombs A and B are located approximately 15 feet to the east of the chancel of St John's Parish Church in Duxford. Chest tomb A is made of limestone, featuring panelled sides and a coped cover. It has inscriptions in two panels, painted black, commemorating Sarah Piper, who died in 1833, and Elizabeth Piper, who died in 1879. Chest tomb B also has a limestone cover and posts, adorned with a Greek fret design and white marble panels, but it does not have any inscriptions.
Local climate
Chest Tombs A and B Circa 15 Feet to East of Chancel of St John's Parish Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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