Chest Tomb Approximately 30 Metres West of Tower is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 30 Metres West of Tower
- WRENN ID
- first-remnant-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SU 684 947
- Coordinates
- 51.64718, -1.01222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located approximately 30 meters west of the tower of the Church of St. Leonard in Watlington, commemorates Thomas Williams, who died in 1811. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a moulded plinth and cornice, along with reeded corner pilasters. The tomb is topped with a wreathed ball finial.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 30 Metres West of Tower 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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