Group of Seven Chest Tombs Approximately 128 Metres East of Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1998. Tomb group.
Group of Seven Chest Tombs Approximately 128 Metres East of Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- old-timber-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1998
- Type
- Tomb group
- OS grid reference
- TG 526 080
- Coordinates
- 52.61141, 1.7298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of seven chest tombs made of limestone panels over brick, located approximately 128 metres east of the Church of St Nicholas in Great Yarmouth. They date from the third quarter of the 19th century. Among the tombs is a memorial to the Burroughs family from 1854, featuring Gothic panels on the sides. Immediately to the north is a plain memorial for Mary Bloom, dated 1854 and 1858. Further north is the memorial for William Yetts, from 1863, which has tapering fluted corners on lion-foot bases. To the east is the memorial for Marianne Tapton, dated 1874 and 1875.
Local climate
Group of Seven Chest Tombs Approximately 128 Metres East of Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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