Church of St Helen, Group of Two Chest Tombs and Two Gravestones to South of Chancel is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Tomb, gravestone.
Church of St Helen, Group of Two Chest Tombs and Two Gravestones to South of Chancel
- WRENN ID
- sacred-mortar-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- Tomb, gravestone
- Address
- Church of St Helen, Group of Two Chest Tombs and Two Gravestones to South of Chancel, Berrick Salome
- OS grid reference
- SU 623 942
- Coordinates
- 51.64381, -1.09979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Helen features a group of two chest tombs and two gravestones located to the south of the chancel. These tombs and gravestones date from the late 17th century and early 18th century and are made of limestone. The southernmost chest tomb has an ovolo-moulded lid, plain sides, and an end inscription panel. The adjoining tomb has an ogee-moulded lid with square ogee-moulded side and end panels. The gravestones to the north are likely the head and footstones of one grave, each displaying scrolled heads with convex oval inscription panels beneath recessed skulls. The eastern stone is dated 1707.
Local climate
Church of St Helen, Group of Two Chest Tombs and Two Gravestones to South of Chancel 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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