Chest Tomb to Burges Family Approximately 1 Metre South of Tower of Church of Saint Peter is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb to Burges Family Approximately 1 Metre South of Tower of Church of Saint Peter
- WRENN ID
- narrow-hinge-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SU 609 894
- Coordinates
- 51.60067, -1.12182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb to the Burges family is located approximately 1 meter south of the tower of the Church of Saint Peter in Wallingford. It dates from the early 19th century and is made of stone. The tomb is rectangular in shape and features a moulded plinth with two oval panels on each side, along with cabled fluting at the ends and in the middle. There is a single oval panel at each end, and the top is deeply moulded and shaped.
Local climate
Chest Tomb to Burges Family Approximately 1 Metre South of Tower of Church of Saint 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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