Group of 8 Chest Tombs Approximately 14 Metres and 22 Metres North North West and 25 Metres North of Nave of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1988. Tombs.
Group of 8 Chest Tombs Approximately 14 Metres and 22 Metres North North West and 25 Metres North of Nave of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lime-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1988
- Type
- Tombs
- OS grid reference
- SP 356 092
- Coordinates
- 51.781, -1.48536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of eight chest tombs located approximately 14 metres and 22 metres north-north-west, and 25 metres north of the nave of the Church of St. Mary. The two tombs that are about 14 metres north-north-west date from the early 18th century and are made of limestone. The southern tomb features a cyma-moulded plinth, a splayed cornice on top, and two inscription panels with raised surrounds. The northern tomb has a raised surround for narrow panels and a central inscription panel, with skulls flanking a winged cherub's head above a worn inscription. The chest tomb located approximately 22 metres north-north-west also dates from the early to mid-18th century and is made of limestone. It has a cyma-moulded plinth and cornice, with carved scrolls flanking the inscription panel. The group of five chest tombs approximately 25 metres north dates from the 18th century and is also made of limestone, with all having moulded tops. The Leake tomb to the south-west, dated 1767 and from the 1750s, features a rococo cartouche. A similar mid-18th century tomb is located to the north. The tombs to the east are dated 1786, and one commemorates Anne Fisher, who died in the early 19th century.
Local climate
Group of 8 Chest Tombs Approximately 14 Metres and 22 Metres North North West and 25 Metres North of Nave of Church of St Mary receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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