Chest Tomb 2 Metres South East of Tower of Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. Tomb.
Chest Tomb 2 Metres South East of Tower of Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-gargoyle-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1989
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SP 252 041
- Coordinates
- 51.73548, -1.63626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located 2 meters southeast of the tower of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, dates from the late 18th century and is dedicated to Anne, although the inscriptions are mostly illegible. The tomb features a coved cornice lid topped with a coffin-shaped slab. It is adorned with simple pilasters that have single flutes, and the inscription panels are bordered with carvings of foliage scrolls, winged cherub heads, and rosettes.
Local climate
Chest Tomb 2 Metres South East of Tower of Church of St Peter and St Paul receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 Boys Chest Tomb 5 Yards North of Church of St Anne
- 2 Tomb 7 Metres North West of the Church of St Peter
- 3 Chest Tomb 25 Yards South West of Porch of Church of St Peter and St Paul
- 4 Chest Tomb About 3 Metres South West of the Tower of the Church of St Peter
- 5 Chest Tomb Approximately 1 Metre South East of Church of St Peter
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings