Chest Tomb to Button Family in All Hallows Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. Tomb.
Chest Tomb to Button Family in All Hallows Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- cold-lancet-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Chest Tomb to Button Family in All Hallows Churchyard, Castle Street, Wallingford
- OS grid reference
- SU 607 896
- Coordinates
- 51.60211, -1.12425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb to the Button family, located in All Hallows Churchyard, dates from around 1795 and features later inscriptions. It is made of stone and has a rectangular shape. The plinth is adorned with torus and cavetto moulding. Each side has two rectangular panels that are flanked by cabled fluting, while each end has a single panel also flanked by cabled fluting. The tomb has a flat top. The panels are painted black with gold inscriptions. The panel facing the street commemorates Edward Button, who died during his term as mayor of the borough on August 7th, 1795, at the age of 63 years. Additional inscriptions for other members of the Button family appear on the other panels.
Local climate
Chest Tomb to Button Family in All Hallows Churchyard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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