Chest Tomb South East of St Georges Church is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Tomb.
Chest Tomb South East of St Georges Church
- WRENN ID
- dark-crypt-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Chest Tomb South East of St Georges Church, the Green, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 808 326
- Coordinates
- 51.06481, 0.58004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located southeast of St George's Church in Benenden, dates from around 1697. It is a rectangular stone structure featuring a moulded cornice and angle pilasters with roll moulding. The west face has an inscription from 1697, while the north face bears an inscription from 1704.
Local climate
Chest Tomb South East of St Georges Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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