Chest Tomb About 10 Metres West of Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Tomb.
Chest Tomb About 10 Metres West of Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- floating-flagstone-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 867 061
- Coordinates
- 50.84408, -3.61047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located about 10 metres west of the tower of the Church of St. Matthew, dates from around 1831. It is made of Portland Stone ashlar and has a rectangular shape, resting on a chamfered plinth with a hollow-moulded base and a low pitched lid. Each corner features clasping pilasters with recessed panels. The south side of the tomb commemorates John Cross Pitt, who died at the age of 17 in 1831, while the east side records the deaths of John Pitt in 1836 and Thomas Pitt in 1811. The lid also includes memorials to other members of the Pitt family from the later 19th century.
Local climate
Chest Tomb About 10 Metres West of Church of St Matthew 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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