Group of 3 Tomb Chests North of Chancel of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Tomb chest group.
Group of 3 Tomb Chests North of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- scarred-threshold-birch
- 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 chest group
- Address
- Group of 3 Tomb Chests North of Chancel of Church of St Mary, Church Street, Woodnesborough
- OS grid reference
- TR 308 567
- Coordinates
- 51.26294, 1.30762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of three tomb chests located about 10 to 15 metres north of the chancel of the Church of St. Mary. The first tomb chest belongs to Sladden, who died in 1711 or 1712. It features a moulded black marble top slab on a brick chest, with uprights decorated with rose wreaths, skulls, and simple raised and fielded panels. The second chest is for Thomas and Susannah Jull, who died in 1726. This chest is particularly fine, with a moulded base and top slab, stone side panels, a central reeded upright, and corner uprights adorned with motifs of a wreathed plant growing out of a skull, ribbons, Death's heads, Wyverns, and winged cherubs. The third tomb chest belongs to William (and Sarah) Harris, who died in 1840, and is situated about 15 metres north. It is designed as a sarcophagus on a double stepped base, featuring fluted corner piers on lion's feet, with side panels decorated with palm fronds and end panels showcasing a Holy Dove in a radiant surround.
Local climate
Group of 3 Tomb Chests North of Chancel of Church of St Mary 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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