3 Chest Tombs Approximately 20 Metres South of Nave, Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1986. Tombs.
3 Chest Tombs Approximately 20 Metres South of Nave, Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- graven-buttress-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1986
- Type
- Tombs
- OS grid reference
- SP 454 405
- Coordinates
- 52.0612, -1.3389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are three chest tombs located approximately 20 meters south of the nave of the Church of St. Mary. The tombs date from 1832, 1801, and 1803, arranged from west to east. They feature panelled sides, moulded and chamfered ledger slabs, and two of the tombs have corner balusters. This group of tombs is positioned to the west of a side entrance to the churchyard.
Local climate
3 Chest Tombs Approximately 20 Metres South of Nave, Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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