Meacham Chest Tomb Approximately 4 Metres North-West of Newhouse Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. Chest tomb.
Meacham Chest Tomb Approximately 4 Metres North-West of Newhouse Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- quiet-marble-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 196 099
- Coordinates
- 50.88372, -3.14341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Meacham chest tomb, located approximately 4 metres north-west of Newhouse Baptist Church, is a Grade II listed structure dated 1739 in memory of Thomas Meacham. Made of hamstone, the chest tomb has a rectangular shape and features a soffit-moulded lid with a low-pitched ridge on top. The plinth is currently buried. The sides of the tomb are adorned with rectangular panels that have bead-moulded surrounds, with two panels on each long side and one on each end. The southern panels are inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. The left panel commemorates the death of Thomas Meacham in 1739, while the right panel honors his son, also named Thomas, although no date of death is provided.
Local climate
Meacham Chest Tomb Approximately 4 Metres North-West of Newhouse Baptist Church receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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