Tomb Chest, 3 Metres North of the Chancel of St Petronella's Church is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. Tomb.
Tomb Chest, 3 Metres North of the Chancel of St Petronella's Church
- WRENN ID
- late-tallow-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TL 832 582
- Coordinates
- 52.19198, 0.68013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This limestone tomb-chest is located 3 metres north of the chancel of St. Petronella's Church. It commemorates Jane, the wife of John Brown, who died in 1818. The tomb-chest is oblong in shape and features simple mouldings. On top of the chest is a casket with splayed sides, a moulded top and base, and splayed-out bracket feet. Each of the long sides of the casket has an epitaph inscribed on it.
Local climate
Tomb Chest, 3 Metres North of the Chancel of St Petronella's Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- 1 Tombchest of Elizabeth and John Brown 52 Metres to South East of Church of St Materiana
- 2 Chest Tomb to Jane Morris (?) About 1 Metre South of Church of St John
- 3 2 Tombchests of William Gardell and John Marten 1-3.5 Metres to South of Nave to West of South Porch of Church of St Julitta
- 4 Tombchest of Jane Bate 9 Metres to East of Chancel of Parish Church
- 5 Monument to Jane Saben, in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
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