Carter Chest Tomb in the Churchyard About 10 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Tomb.
Carter Chest Tomb in the Churchyard About 10 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- keen-passage-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 603 840
- Coordinates
- 51.55417, -2.57312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Carter chest tomb, located in the churchyard about 10 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St. Mary, is a late 18th-century sandstone chest tomb. It features a flat top with a moulded edge and plain quarter balusters. Inscriptions can be found on the north and south sides within double cartouches, which include decorative elements such as an hourglass, a putto, a trumpet, and a crown in the spandrels. The tomb has a moulded base and commemorates Henry Carter, who died in 1794, along with other family members.
Local climate
Carter Chest Tomb in the Churchyard About 10 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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