Saunders Chest Tomb Approximately 4.5 Metres East of the Chapel of the Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Tomb.
Saunders Chest Tomb Approximately 4.5 Metres East of the Chapel of the Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-slate-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SY 108 994
- Coordinates
- 50.78756, -3.26562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a chest tomb dated 1793, located approximately 4.5 metres east of the chapel of the Church of St Andrew. It is dedicated to John Saunders and is made of Hamstone ashlar. The tomb has a rectangular shape and rests on a moulded plinth. Its lid features soffit-moulding and a low-pitched ridge along the top. Each side of the tomb is adorned with fielded panels, and there are panelled pilasters at both ends of the long sides. The west end panel is inscribed, with the first word in Gothic lettering and the remainder in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, commemorating the death of John Saunders in 1793.
Local climate
Saunders Chest Tomb Approximately 4.5 Metres East of the Chapel of the Church of St Andrew receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% 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 77% 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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