Chest Tomb, 3 Yards South of South Wall of Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Surrey Heath local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Tomb.
Chest Tomb, 3 Yards South of South Wall of Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- waiting-timber-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Surrey Heath
- Constituency
- Surrey Heath MP: Dr Al Pinkerton (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SU 930 637
- Coordinates
- 51.36487, -0.66487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located 3 yards south of the south wall of the Church of St John the Baptist, dates from 1791 to an unknown date, as the inscription is illegible. It is made of stone and stands on a moulded plinth. The tomb features panelled sides and an inscribed flat lid with a moulded edge. It also has recessed angle piers that are adorned with moulded bases and capitals.
Local climate
Chest Tomb, 3 Yards South of South Wall of Church of St John the Baptist 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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.
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