2 Chest Tombs About 15 Metres South East of the Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1989. Monument.
2 Chest Tombs About 15 Metres South East of the Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- dusted-transept-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1989
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- ST 158 023
- Coordinates
- 50.81433, -3.19587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two chest tombs located about 15 metres southeast of the Church of St Nicholas, dating from the early 19th century. They are made of freestone and are rectangular in shape, featuring moulded plinths and oversailing moulded lids. The sides of the chests have fielded panels. The western tomb has several inscriptions, with the earliest dating to 1822, including one on the south side that commemorates Aemelia Petty, who died in 1827. The eastern chest tomb commemorates Richard Weeks, who died in 1835, along with others.
Local climate
2 Chest Tombs About 15 Metres South East of the Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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