Cobbett Chest Tomb and Area Railings Immediately North of Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1991. Tomb.
Cobbett Chest Tomb and Area Railings Immediately North of Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- stranded-outpost-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Farnham and Bordon MP: Gregory Stafford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1991
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Cobbett Chest Tomb and Area Railings Immediately North of Church of St Andrew, Church Yard, Farnham
- OS grid reference
- SU 838 466
- Coordinates
- 51.21331, -0.80092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cobbett chest tomb, dating from around 1835, is located immediately north of the Church of St Andrew in Farnham. This stone tomb, which is partly rendered, is a large rectangular structure featuring a moulded base and lid, with the lid having a weathered top. Each end of the tomb has a double-recessed, 4-centred rusticated arch panel that contains a patee fitched cross and the date. The sides are adorned with recessed inscription plaques and flanking corner piers that have double recessed rusticated round-headed niches containing upturned torches. The chest is set on a large ashlar plinth and is surrounded by cast-iron area railings with an intersecting pattern, cresting, and polygonal corner standards. The tomb commemorates William Cobbett, an essayist, politician, and agriculturalist, who was born in 1762 in Farnham and died at Normandy Farm, near Guildford, in 1835.
Local climate
Cobbett Chest Tomb and Area Railings Immediately North of Church of St Andrew receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Gas Lamp to North of Church Porch
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- Boundary Wall to Numbers 1 and 2
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- Churchyard Wall Bounding West Side of the Churchyard
- Gas Lamp to North East of Church of St Andrew
- Churchyard Wall Bounding East Side of Churchyard
- Boundary Wall to Number 13 (Along Church Passage)