Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres to North of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres to North of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-buttress-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SP 531 185
- Coordinates
- 51.86337, -1.23014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from the late 18th century, is made of Marlstone and is located approximately 2 meters north of the Church of St. Mary in Weston on the Green. It features a rectangular shape with a moulded base and cover, square corner balusters, and Grecian urns carved in shallow relief on the end panels. The inscriptions on the sides are now largely illegible.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres to North of Church of St Mary 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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