2 Chest Tombs Approximately 25 Metres and 30 Metres South of Church of St Mary Blessed Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Chest tombs.
2 Chest Tombs Approximately 25 Metres and 30 Metres South of Church of St Mary Blessed Virgin
- WRENN ID
- leaning-minaret-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- Chest tombs
- OS grid reference
- SX 537 562
- Coordinates
- 50.38821, -4.05862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two chest tombs located approximately 25 meters and 30 meters south of the Church of St Mary Blessed Virgin in Plympton. These tombs date from the 17th century. The inscriptions are difficult to read, but one tomb is marked with the date 1638, while the other, which is farther from the church, has the dates 1672 and 1674. Both tombs are made of coursed freestone and feature projecting freestone lids, with each tomb being rectangular in shape.
Local climate
2 Chest Tombs Approximately 25 Metres and 30 Metres South of Church of St Mary Blessed Virgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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