Church of St Peter,Chest Tomb Approximately 7 Metres South of Chancel is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Tomb.
Church of St Peter,Chest Tomb Approximately 7 Metres South of Chancel
- WRENN ID
- narrow-finial-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SP 476 013
- Coordinates
- 51.70907, -1.312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb located approximately 7 meters south of the chancel of the Church of St. Peter is a late 18th-century structure made of limestone. It features a moulded plinth and cornice, with plain inscription panels. The tomb commemorates Thomas Richards, who died in 1755, and includes dates from 1773 and 1828.
Local climate
Church of St Peter,Chest Tomb Approximately 7 Metres South of Chancel 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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