Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres South of South Porch of Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres South of South Porch of Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- scattered-hearth-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SU 715 976
- Coordinates
- 51.67293, -0.96638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from the 17th century, is located approximately 2 meters south of the south porch of the Church of St. Margaret on Lewknor High Street. It is made of limestone and features a Gothic Survival style. The tomb is decorated with alternating quatrefoils and trefoil-headed blind arches, and it has a cavetto-moulded top.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 2 Metres South of South Porch of Church of St Margaret 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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