Pair of Chest Tombs Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel, Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1996. Tomb.
Pair of Chest Tombs Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel, Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-joist-hyssop
- 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 817 658
- Coordinates
- 51.36275, 0.60935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of chest tombs located approximately 5 meters south of the chancel at the Church of St Margaret in Gillingham. They date from the mid to late 18th century and are made of limestone ashlar. The rectangular tombs feature moulded corner panels set on a moulded base, and they have moulded table tops. The inscriptions on the tombs have faded over time.
Local climate
Pair of Chest Tombs Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel, Church of St Margaret sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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