Pair of Chest Tombs Approximately 3 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. Chest tombs.
Pair of Chest Tombs Approximately 3 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- narrow-corner-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1989
- Type
- Chest tombs
- OS grid reference
- SP 236 200
- Coordinates
- 51.87839, -1.65822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of chest tombs located approximately 3 meters south of the chancel of the Church of St. Nicholas. They are likely from the late 16th century and made of limestone. The northern tomb features a rectangular shape with a cavetto-moulded capping and a quatrefoil design on the west end. The southern tomb has projecting knobs on its capping and displays a Gothic tracery pattern, which includes quatrefoils on its sides. At the time of the last survey in July 1987, no inscriptions were visible on either tomb.
Local climate
Pair of Chest Tombs Approximately 3 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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