Chapple Chest Tomb, Huxtable Headstone and 2 Accompanying Stones Bearing Verses About 2 Metres South West of South Porch of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Chest tomb.
Chapple Chest Tomb, Huxtable Headstone and 2 Accompanying Stones Bearing Verses About 2 Metres South West of South Porch of Church of St Peter
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 656 312
- Coordinates
- 51.06526, -3.91824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapple chest tomb, Huxtable headstone, and two accompanying gravestones are located about 2 metres south-west of the south porch of the Church of St Peter in West Buckland. This group of memorials dates from the mid-19th century. The chest tomb, created by T Britton, features a slate slab resting on a brick plinth. The chest tomb has deeply incised borders and decoration at the head of the slate slab, which bears the verse: "Behold He taketh away/who can hinder him/who will say unto him what doest thou?" This memorial is dedicated to members of the Chapple family. The slate headstone has incised decorative borders and commemorates "the last of the Huxtables of Leary... Landowners of Parts of Leary before the Days of Oliver Cromwell." The two accompanying stones to the south also bear verses, with the left stone featuring a nowy arched design.
Local climate
Chapple Chest Tomb, Huxtable Headstone and 2 Accompanying Stones Bearing Verses About 2 Metres South West of South Porch of Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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