Chest Tomb Approimately 40 Metres North of East End of Church of St Mary Magdalen is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1996. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Approimately 40 Metres North of East End of Church of St Mary Magdalen
- WRENN ID
- dim-granite-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham MP: Naushabah Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1996
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TQ 783 688
- Coordinates
- 51.39056, 0.5627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, is located approximately 40 metres north of the east end of the Church of St Mary Magdalen in Gillingham. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a rectangular shape with a moulded base. The corners are adorned with moulded quarter balusters, and the sides have raised panels. The tomb is topped with a moulded surface, although the inscription is not legible.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approimately 40 Metres North of East End of Church of St Mary Magdalen 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 84% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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