Burden Tomb Chest Approximately 4 Metres West of West End of West Tower of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. A C19 Tomb chest.
Burden Tomb Chest Approximately 4 Metres West of West End of West Tower of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- fading-pediment-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Tomb chest
- OS grid reference
- SS 472 286
- Coordinates
- 51.03676, -4.18015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Burden tomb chest, located approximately 4 metres west of the west end of the west tower of the Church of St Peter, is an early 19th-century structure. It features a brick plinth topped with a slate slab. The corners of the tomb chest are adorned with incised urns. The inscription commemorates George Burden, a yeoman from Horwood, who died in 1812, along with his son who died in 1787, his wife who died in 1814, and his grandson who died in 1816.
Local climate
Burden Tomb Chest Approximately 4 Metres West of West End of West Tower of Church of St Peter receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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