Dee Chest Tomb Approximately 6 Metres to North of North Aisle 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.
Dee Chest Tomb Approximately 6 Metres to North of North Aisle Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- distant-buttress-indigo
- 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
- 51.05511, -3.80395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dee chest tomb, located approximately 6 metres north of the north aisle of the Church of All Saints, is a Grade II listed structure. It dates from 1735 and 1737 and is made of sandstone. The tomb features a cyma-recta moulded cornice on its flat top. On the south side, there are two lightly-incised panels with shaped heads. The inscriptions commemorate John Dee of Lower Fyldon, who died on 19th January 1735, and his son Thomas Dee, who passed away on 17th March 1737.
Local climate
Dee Chest Tomb Approximately 6 Metres to North of North Aisle 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.
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