Group of 4 Chest Tombs About 35 Metres North West of Church of St Laurence is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. A C19 Tomb.
Group of 4 Chest Tombs About 35 Metres North West of Church of St Laurence
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TR 369 653
- Coordinates
- 51.3378, 1.40104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of four chest tombs located about 35 metres northwest of the Church of St. Laurence. The tombs include one for Henry Petley, who died in 1858. It features a stepped base leading to a plinth with a sarcophagus, reeded corner piers, raised side panels with chamfered corners, and a shaped top slab. The tomb is enclosed by spearhead rails. Approximately 5 metres southeast is an early 19th-century tomb with reeded side panels and a moulded top slab, adorned with crescent-headed rails and an urn finial. This tomb belongs to the Petley family, dating from 1806 onwards. Another chest tomb has a moulded plinth with baluster corner piers, reeded side panels, and a moulded top slab, along with spearheaded rails featuring cup and cover finials. Lastly, there is an unrailed chest tomb for Barman Bourne, who died in 1831, which has a moulded base with fluted baluster corner piers, raised and fielded side panels, and a moulded top slab.
Local climate
Group of 4 Chest Tombs About 35 Metres North West of Church of St Laurence 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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