Chest Tomb About 2 Metres West of South Aisle 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. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb About 2 Metres West of South Aisle of Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- wild-courtyard-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1985
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 867 061
- Coordinates
- 50.84395, -3.61029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located about 2 metres west of the south aisle of the Church of St Matthew, dates from around 1836. It is made of limestone and features plain sides with a soffit-chamfered flat lid. The lid has an inscription dedicated to Thomas Melhuish, who died in 1836, and his brother John, who died in 1839, both of Barnshill. Each long end of the tomb has a less expertly inscribed epithet.
Local climate
Chest Tomb About 2 Metres West of South Aisle 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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