2 Tomb Chests in All Saints Churchyard (5 Metres to South West of Porch) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. A Eighteenth Century Tomb chests.
2 Tomb Chests in All Saints Churchyard (5 Metres to South West of Porch)
- WRENN ID
- low-footing-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Tomb chests
- Period
- Eighteenth Century
- OS grid reference
- TL 192 222
- Coordinates
- 51.8863, -0.26905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two tomb-chests located in the churchyard of All Saints Church, positioned 5 meters southwest of the porch. One tomb-chest dates from around 1779, while the other is from the 18th century. Both are made of white limestone with black marble top slabs. They are rectangular and placed side-by-side, featuring a moulded base and a single panel on each face, with inscriptions on the top slabs. The further tomb-chest has convex corners with fielded panels and recessed gadrooned baluster-style corners. The nearer tomb-chest has rectangular ovolo-moulded fielded panels and simpler recessed baluster-style corners.
Local climate
2 Tomb Chests in All Saints Churchyard (5 Metres to South West of Porch) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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