Chest Tomb and 2 Headstones About 1 Metre South of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Tomb.
Chest Tomb and 2 Headstones About 1 Metre South of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- fossil-truss-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TR 048 426
- Coordinates
- 51.14611, 0.92768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a chest tomb and two headstones located about 1 metre south of the Church of St Mary. The chest tomb is dedicated to George Wightwick and family, who died in 1749. It is made of stone and features a plain chest design with pilaster side piers supporting a moulded top slab, along with simple inscription pieces.
One headstone is for Edward Andrews, who died in 1754. It stands about 2½ feet high and has an ornate headpiece decorated with a scrolled winged hourglass and a garlanded skull and bones. The second headstone commemorates Christopher Flury, who died in 1714. This headstone is also about 2½ feet high and features floriate scrolled shoulders with motifs of an hourglass and a crown over a serpent.
Local climate
Chest Tomb and 2 Headstones About 1 Metre South of Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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