Chest Tomb Beside East Churchyard Boundary Wall and to the East of the Parish 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. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb Beside East Churchyard Boundary Wall and to the East of the Parish Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- little-mullion-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- TL 487 492
- Coordinates
- 52.12141, 0.17189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located beside the east churchyard boundary wall and to the east of the Parish Church of St Mary, dates from the late 17th century. It features enriched pilasters, emblems of mortality, and a cartouche displaying the arms of three leopards.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Beside East Churchyard Boundary Wall and to the East of the Parish Church of St Mary 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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