Chest Tomb Approximately 40 Metres to South of West Tower of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 40 Metres to South of West Tower of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- stark-step-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 736 299
- Coordinates
- 51.05459, -3.80412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from the late 18th century, is located approximately 40 metres south of the west tower of the Church of All Saints in North Molton. It is made of sandstone and features a coved cornice on its flat top. The top slab is inscribed and adorned with three carved winged cherubs' heads at the west end. The inscription commemorates Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of James and Rebeccah Flemen, who died on 12th July 1777 and was buried on 16th July 1777 at the age of 16 months, as well as James Flemen, who died in June 1781, and Rebeccah Flemen, who died in July 1792.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 40 Metres to South of West Tower of Church of All Saints sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Chest Tomb Approximately 14 Metres to South of Chancel of Church of All Saints
- 2 Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of South Door of Church of St Mary
- 3 Tomb Chest (Marshall) Approximately 7 Metres South of East End of Nave of Church of All Saints
- 4 Thorne Memorial Approximately 26 Metres to South of Chancel of Church of All Saints
- 5 Group of 3 Memorials Approximately 32 Metres to South of South Aisle of Church of All Saints
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings