Richard Marsden Chest Tomb About 10 Metres North of the Tower of the Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1989. A Victorian Chest tomb.
Richard Marsden Chest Tomb About 10 Metres North of the Tower of the Church of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- dim-nave-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1989
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Period
- Victorian
- OS grid reference
- ST 133 018
- Coordinates
- 50.80963, -3.23116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Richard Marsden chest tomb, located about 10 metres north of the tower of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, is a late 19th-century chest tomb made of freestone. It features a coped Gothic style with a carved frieze on the chest and a coped lid that has a roll moulding ending in floriated crosses. The inscription commemorates Richard Marsden, with the date of death being partly illegible but appearing to be from the 1860s. This tomb is a notable example of an archaeological chest tomb in the Gothic style.
Local climate
Richard Marsden Chest Tomb About 10 Metres North of the Tower of the Church of St Michael and All Angels 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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