Tomb Chest North of Nave of St Margaret's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1991. Tomb chest.
Tomb Chest North of Nave of St Margaret's Church
- WRENN ID
- upper-string-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1991
- Type
- Tomb chest
- Address
- Tomb Chest North of Nave of St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 740 680
- Coordinates
- 51.38507, 0.49963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb chest located north of the nave of St Margaret's Church is a Grade II listed structure dedicated to Francis Patten, dating from 1819. It is made of panelled limestone and features a moulded plinth and top, which supports an urn.
Local climate
Tomb Chest North of Nave of St Margaret's Church 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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