Pair of Adjacent Brown Chest Tombs Approximately 14 Metres South of Aisle of the 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. Chest tomb.
Pair of Adjacent Brown Chest Tombs Approximately 14 Metres South of Aisle of the Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- open-cloister-larch
- 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 076 166
- Coordinates
- 50.94149, -3.31636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This description covers a pair of adjacent chest tombs located approximately 14 meters south of the aisle of the Church of St Mary. The tombs date from the late 18th century, with one dedicated to John Brown, who died in 1793, and the other to Margaret Brown, who died in 1797. Both tombs are constructed from roughly-coursed blocks of volcanic stone rubble and feature grey basalt lids. They have plain flat lids and plain walls. The southern chest tomb, which is the older of the two, has an inscription in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering that commemorates John Brown's death. Additionally, there is a Hamstone plaque at the west end of this tomb honoring John Brown's sons. The northern tomb's lid is inscribed in italic lettering, recording the death of Margaret Brown.
Local climate
Pair of Adjacent Brown Chest Tombs Approximately 14 Metres South of Aisle of the 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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