Shepard Chest Tomb 10 Metres South of Chancel of Parish Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1984. Chest tomb.
Shepard Chest Tomb 10 Metres South of Chancel of Parish Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- scarred-span-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 399 591
- Coordinates
- 51.32803, -2.86307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shepard chest tomb, located 10 metres south of the chancel of the Parish Church of St. Andrew, is a Grade II listed structure. This chest tomb features an earliest legible date of 1633, marking the death of Margaret Shepard. It is made of freestone, with a coarsely cut inscribed end panel and a finely cut south panel dated 1765. The tomb is topped with a heavy chamfered slab.
Local climate
Shepard Chest Tomb 10 Metres South of Chancel of Parish Church of St Andrew 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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