Chest Tomb to Stone Family About 5 Metres South of Church of St Batholomew, Goodnestone is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1986. Tomb.
Chest Tomb to Stone Family About 5 Metres South of Church of St Batholomew, Goodnestone
- WRENN ID
- fallen-merlon-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TR 044 615
- Coordinates
- 51.31652, 0.93229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a chest tomb for the Stone family, located about 5 metres south of the Church of St. Batholomew in Goodnestone. It dates from the early 19th century, with the earliest inscription commemorating George Stone, who died in 1810. The side panels feature horizontal fluting, as well as lozenge and trapezium panels. The tomb has fluted corner pilasters adorned with guilloche decoration, and the heads are moulded and fluted, decorated with rose motifs. A later 19th-century slab sits on top. Similar design elements can be found in other local churchyards.
Local climate
Chest Tomb to Stone Family About 5 Metres South of Church of St Batholomew, Goodnestone sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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