Chest Tomb and Headstone About 15 Metres South West of Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. Tomb, headstone.
Chest Tomb and Headstone About 15 Metres South West of Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- spare-trefoil-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- Tomb, headstone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 989 324
- Coordinates
- 51.05729, 0.83787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb and headstone are located about 15 metres south-west of the Church of St. Matthew. The chest tomb is dedicated to Richard Foord, who died in 1818, and his family. It features an originally railed base with a moulded plinth, raised and fielded side panels with cut-out corners, ovolo-moulded incised piers, and an inscribed top slab. Leaning against the tomb is the headstone of Mary Hodges, who died in 1709. This headstone stands about 2 and a half feet high and has an incised panel with a segmental head on scrolled shoulders, decorated with motifs of a lily and skull and bones.
Local climate
Chest Tomb and Headstone About 15 Metres South West of Church of St Matthew sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% 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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