Stone Coffin Approximately 250 Metres South West of Baldon House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Coffin.
Stone Coffin Approximately 250 Metres South West of Baldon House
- WRENN ID
- final-corridor-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1986
- Type
- Coffin
- OS grid reference
- SU 558 989
- Coordinates
- 51.68631, -1.19329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a medieval stone coffin located approximately 250 meters southwest of Baldon House. It has a tapering shape with an interior designed to accommodate the head. The coffin is set into the ground near the lake at Baldon House, where it used to be part of an artificial ruin or folly that included elements salvaged from the demolished medieval church at Nuneham Courtenay.
Local climate
Stone Coffin Approximately 250 Metres South West of Baldon House 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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