Barlow Chest Tomb Approximately 12 Metres West of Tower of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1987. Chest tomb.
Barlow Chest Tomb Approximately 12 Metres West of Tower of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- scarred-merlon-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SY 065 849
- Coordinates
- 50.65653, -3.3229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barlow chest tomb, dated 1869, is located approximately 12 metres west of the tower of the Church of All Saints in East Budleigh. This chest tomb is built of white marble and commemorates Captain Benjamin Barlow. It features a moulded plinth and a pitched, hipped roof-like lid. Each long side has a central sunken panel with a Tudor arched head, which is decorated with cusping. The end bays slightly project forward, and the lid is hipped. These bays also contain a geometric pattern of sunken panels enriched with cusping. At the top centre, there is a lozenge-shaped panel with a four-leaf motif that rises above the cornice and is topped with a small gablet. The ends of the tomb display similar geometric patterns. The side panels are inscribed with lead lettering sunk into the marble; the north side records the death of Captain Benjamin Barlow in 1869, while the south side notes the deaths of his wife Mary Ann in 1900 and their daughter Clara in 1909. The tomb is surrounded by limestone coping stones, which have socket holes from original iron railings.
Local climate
Barlow Chest Tomb Approximately 12 Metres West of Tower of Church of All Saints 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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