Tomb Chest 5 Metres South of Nave/Chancel Juncture to Comer Family in Loxhore Parish Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Tomb chest.
Tomb Chest 5 Metres South of Nave/Chancel Juncture to Comer Family in Loxhore Parish Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-pedestal-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Tomb chest
- OS grid reference
- SS 616 387
- Coordinates
- 51.13128, -3.97806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a tomb chest for members of the Comer family, located 5 metres south of the junction between the nave and chancel in Loxhore Parish Churchyard. It was created in the 1840s by Finch and Down of Barnstaple. The tomb chest features a slate tablet and slated sides set on a brick plinth. It has a cyma reversa stone moulding at the top and a roll moulding at the base of the slated sides. The slate top records the death of Richard Comer in 1840, his widow in 1843, and the name of Richard Comer Clarke, which was added in 1903.
Local climate
Tomb Chest 5 Metres South of Nave/Chancel Juncture to Comer Family in Loxhore Parish Churchyard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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