Chest Tomb Approximately 500 Metres South of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 500 Metres South of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- little-attic-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 842 032
- Coordinates
- 50.81752, -3.64485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located approximately 500 metres south of the Church of St Mary, dates from around 1826 and was created for John Read of Teignmouth. It is made of Portland stone and stands on a podium of brick and granite. The tomb has a rectangular shape with a bead-mould base and a flat lid featuring reeded edges. Each side of the tomb includes a shallow recessed panel framed with a double rebate. The east side commemorates John Read, who died on March 12, 1826, while the south and west sides memorialize his wife, Mary, who died in 1867, and their children. The granite coping of the retaining wall originally included settings for an enclosing iron fence, which has since been removed.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 500 Metres South of Church of St Mary receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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