Chest Tomb to Henry Hodges Approximately 30 Metres East of Chancel, All Saints Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Chest Tomb to Henry Hodges Approximately 30 Metres East of Chancel, All Saints Church
- WRENN ID
- quiet-grate-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TQ 842 237
- Coordinates
- 50.98338, 0.62428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from around 1837, is located approximately 30 meters east of the chancel at All Saints Church in Beckley. It is made of stone and features a moulded top with a plain base resting on a tooled plinth, although the railings are now missing. The tomb has corner pilasters and panels adorned with a grooved pattern. An inscription on the tomb reads: "To the memory of Henry Hodges MA, Clerk Rector of this Parish for 55 years and rector of Frittenden Kent Obit July 1st 1837 AETAT 58."
Local climate
Chest Tomb to Henry Hodges Approximately 30 Metres East of Chancel, All Saints Church 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 greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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