Ashby Tomb is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 2011. Tomb.
Ashby Tomb
- WRENN ID
- other-tallow-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 2011
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Ashby Tomb, Abbey Cemetery, Ralph Allen Drive
- OS grid reference
- ST 758 635
- Coordinates
- 51.37094, -2.3485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ashby Tomb is a chest tomb dedicated to the Reverend Nathan Ashby, who died in 1847. It was constructed in the same year and is made of Pennant stone with a grey granite lid. The tomb is designed in the Gothic revival style, featuring blind arcading on the sides adorned with trefoil-headed tracery.
Local climate
Ashby Tomb receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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