Chest Tomb East of Chancel of the Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Tomb.
Chest Tomb East of Chancel of the Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- weathered-chancel-ebony
- 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 Tomb East of Chancel of the Church of St Mary, High Street, Fowlmere
- OS grid reference
- TL 422 459
- Coordinates
- 52.09334, 0.07516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb, dating from the 19th century, is located east of the chancel of the Church of St Mary. It is made of limestone and sandstone and features balustered recessed quoins. The tomb commemorates Rachel Wedd, daughter of William and Elizabeth Wedd, who died in 1822, as well as John Crown Agnis.
Local climate
Chest Tomb East of Chancel of the Church of St Mary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Chest Tomb, 8 Metres South of Chancel of the Parish Church of St Mary
- 2 Oldaker Monument,About 12m West of Door in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin
- 3 Chest tomb in north-east corner of the churchyard of Parish Church of St Mary
- 4 Chest Tomb Approximately 3 Metres South of East Corner of South Aisle of Church of St Mary
- 5 Chest Tomb, 1 Yard to South East of South East Corner of Chancel of Parish Church of St Mary
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings