Meacham Chest Tomb Approximately 15 Metres West of Prescott Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1988. Chest tomb.
Meacham Chest Tomb Approximately 15 Metres West of Prescott Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- patient-hammer-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1988
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 091 143
- Coordinates
- 50.92114, -3.29448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Meacham chest tomb, dated 1721, is located approximately 15 metres west of Prescott Baptist Chapel. This chest tomb is constructed from hamstone ashlar and has a rectangular shape. It features a soffit-moulded lid with a low-pitched ridge on top, while the base is currently buried. Each side of the tomb has a single rectangular panel, and each end has a round-headed panel. The north side is inscribed with slightly cursive Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, commemorating the death of Daniel Meacham in 1721. The west end includes a secondary inscription in more formal lettering, noting the death of Daniel Slanderwick in 1784. This monument is both unusually early and ornate for a Devon non-conformist burial site.
Local climate
Meacham Chest Tomb Approximately 15 Metres West of Prescott Baptist Chapel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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