Chest Tomb for Wood Family, About 3 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Tomb.
Chest Tomb for Wood Family, About 3 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- leaning-floor-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TR 287 583
- Coordinates
- 51.27854, 1.27906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb for the Wood family, located about 3 metres southeast of the chancel of the Church of St. Nicholas, dates from the late 18th century. It is made of stone and features a moulded base supported by two steps. The tomb has urn-shaped corner piers and moulded oval and square side panels that are decorated with fluted fan designs. The end panels include quatrefoil-shaped recesses that once held brasses, which are now lost.
Local climate
Chest Tomb for Wood Family, About 3 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Nicholas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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