Tomb Chest of 0.5 Metres West of Porch of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1987. Tomb chest.
Tomb Chest of 0.5 Metres West of Porch of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- ragged-keystone-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1987
- Type
- Tomb chest
- OS grid reference
- ST 067 081
- Coordinates
- 50.86499, -3.32584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb chest located 0.5 metres west of the porch of the Church of St Mary is likely from the early 19th century. It is made entirely of stone and features a moulded slab with a plinth that projects at the corners to create clasping buttresses. There is no evidence of any memorial inscription ever being present.
Local climate
Tomb Chest of 0.5 Metres West of Porch 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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