Churchill Chest Tomb Approximately 12 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Chest tomb.
Churchill Chest Tomb Approximately 12 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- lost-lantern-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 687 111
- Coordinates
- 50.88464, -3.86748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Churchill Chest Tomb, located approximately 12 meters southeast of the chancel of the Church of All Saints, is a Grade II listed structure dated 1818 in memory of John Churchill. It is made of Portland stone and features a white marble plaque. The tomb has a rectangular shape with a flat soffit-moulded lid and a moulded base. Its sides are adorned with simple recessed panels that have bead-moulded surrounds. The central marble panel on the north side is inscribed, commemorating the death of John Churchill, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1818.
Local climate
Churchill Chest Tomb Approximately 12 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of All Saints sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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