Symons Chest Tomb, 5 Metres North of Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Chest tomb.
Symons Chest Tomb, 5 Metres North of Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- sunken-trefoil-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 352 586
- Coordinates
- 51.32284, -2.93061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Symons chest tomb, located 5 metres north of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Grade II listed structure. This chest tomb is made of freestone and features the earliest legible date of Rev. Thomas Symons M.A. from 1738. It has large volute scrolls at each end, plain recessed tablets with inscriptions, and is supported by a moulded plinth. The tomb is topped with a moulded slab that is surmounted by an urn.
Local climate
Symons Chest Tomb, 5 Metres North of Church of St Mary the Virgin receives an average of 820 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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