Chest Tomb to Morell Family Approximately 2 Metres North of Church of St Peter 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 Morell Family Approximately 2 Metres North of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- tangled-grate-harvest
- 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
- OS grid reference
- SU 609 894
- Coordinates
- 51.60076, -1.1216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb, located approximately 2 meters north of the Church of St. Peter in Wallingford, is likely from the late 18th century. It is made of stone and has a rectangular shape. The tomb features a moulded plinth and two rectangular panels on each side, which are decorated with cabled fluting in the middle and at the ends. There are single panels on the ends of the tomb. The inscriptions are carved and painted black with a black border. The flat top of the tomb has a shaped moulding along its edge.
Local climate
Chest Tomb to Morell Family Approximately 2 Metres North of Church of St Peter 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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