Group of 3 Chest Tombs Approximately 6 Metres North of the Porch of the Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Tombs.
Group of 3 Chest Tombs Approximately 6 Metres North of the Porch of the Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- scarred-jade-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Tombs
- OS grid reference
- TQ 553 414
- Coordinates
- 51.15143, 0.21974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of three chest tombs located approximately 6 meters north of the porch of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, dating from the first half of the 19th century. The tomb closest to the church is made of white marble and is shaped like a sarcophagus. It is completely overgrown with ivy, so no inscription could be seen. Another nearby white marble chest tomb is rectangular in shape, featuring a flat lid with moulded edges and a moulded plinth. It has panelled corner pilasters and plain rectangular panels on each side. The south panel has collapsed, but the remains of the inscription in Roman serif capitals indicate that it commemorates Jacob Jeddere, who died in 1833. The third chest tomb is made of sandstone and has a similar form, with projecting panels that have indented corners. The inscription on the south side, also in Roman serif capitals, records the death of John Beecher of Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, in 1830.
Local climate
Group of 3 Chest Tombs Approximately 6 Metres North of the Porch of the Church of St Mary the Virgin receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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