Railed Tomb Chests and Memorial Cross About 5 Metres South of Nave of Saint Mary's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1986. Tomb chest and memorial cross.
Railed Tomb Chests and Memorial Cross About 5 Metres South of Nave of Saint Mary's Church
- WRENN ID
- quiet-cupola-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1986
- Type
- Tomb chest and memorial cross
- OS grid reference
- TR 310 642
- Coordinates
- 51.33026, 1.31577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of railed tomb chests and a memorial cross located about 5 metres south of the nave of St. Mary's Church, dating from the early 19th century. The tomb chests are made of stone and feature cast iron railings. They have a moulded plinth, a chest with a moulded base, baluster corner posts, four-lobed panels, and a fluted frieze. The inscription on one tomb chest is illegible, and it has spear-head rails. This particular tomb chest belongs to John Swinford, who died in 1846, and includes a moulded base and projecting raised panels with a moulded slab, as well as leaf finials on the rails. The memorial cross, dedicated to the Swinford family and dating from the mid-19th century, features a floriate cross set on a shaft with a pinnacled base on a square plinth that has two steps. It is surrounded by low rails with cross-shaped finials.
Local climate
Railed Tomb Chests and Memorial Cross About 5 Metres South of Nave of Saint Mary's Church 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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