Shippard Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1988. Tomb.
Shippard Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- sombre-bastion-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 076 166
- Coordinates
- 50.94166, -3.31628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shippard chest tomb, dated 1733, is located approximately 5 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St Mary in Burlescombe. This chest tomb is constructed from Hamstone ashlar with slate side panels. It features a soffit-moulded lid with a low-pitched ridge on top. The sides of the tomb have rectangular sunken panels with bead-moulded surrounds, including two slate panels on each long side and single Hamstone panels at each end. The tomb rests on a moulded plinth. On the south side, the left panel is inscribed; the first word is in Gothic lettering, while the remainder is in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, commemorating the death of William Shippard in 1733.
Local climate
Shippard Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Mary 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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