Group of 3 Table Tombs to the East of Holy Rood Church is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. Tomb group.
Group of 3 Table Tombs to the East of Holy Rood Church
- WRENN ID
- grey-truss-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- Tomb group
- OS grid reference
- ST 687 052
- Coordinates
- 50.846, -2.44464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This description is for a group of three table tombs located to the east of Holy Rood Church in Buckland Newton. The first tomb, dedicated to Richard Childes and dated 1627, is made of stone and features a flat, cyma moulded top. The second tomb, situated 3 meters east of the first, commemorates Rev James Venables and is likely from around 1860, designed in the style of a Hellenistic altar. The third tomb is immediately to the north of the second and is probably from the early 18th century. It has a flat, moulded top with rounded ends; one end displays a cartouche while the other features a skull and crossbones with bats' wings. The south panel of this tomb is obscured, and the paint on the north side has fallen away.
Local climate
Group of 3 Table Tombs to the East of Holy Rood Church receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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