Chest Tomb Circa 16 Metres South of East End of South Aisle to St Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Circa 16 Metres South of East End of South Aisle to St Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- tangled-sandstone-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TL 280 441
- Coordinates
- 52.08068, -0.13341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dated 1798, is located approximately 16 meters south of the east end of the south aisle of St. Parish Church in Guilden Morden. It is made of limestone and features a moulded plinth with rectangular raised plaques on each face. One of the plaques is inscribed in black lettering with the name 'M. LADD ..... SELL', who was late of Bassingbourn in the County of Cambridge and died in 1798. The tomb is topped with a flat cover that has moulded edges.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Circa 16 Metres South of East End of South Aisle to St 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No sale records on file
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