Stone Coffin Approximately 1 Metre East of South Porch of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Coffin.
Stone Coffin Approximately 1 Metre East of South Porch of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- open-steel-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- Coffin
- OS grid reference
- SP 448 248
- Coordinates
- 51.9207, -1.34956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a medieval stone coffin made of hewn limestone, located approximately 1 metre east of the south porch of the Church of St. Mary in Steeple Barton. The coffin tapers from head to foot.
Local climate
Stone Coffin Approximately 1 Metre East of South Porch of Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Stone Coffin Adjacent to West Side of Tower at Church of St Mary
- 2 Coffin Stone Approxiamtely 6 Metres West of Chapel of Church of St Mary
- 3 Coffin Slab Approximately 1 Metre South of South Aisle to West of Porch of Church of St Mary
- 4 Church of St Mary, Coffin Lid Approximately 5 Metres to South
- 5 Stone Coffin Set Against West Boundary Wall in Churchyard, 3 Metres West of Church of St Mary
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings