Chest Tomb About 10 Metres North North West of North Porch of Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb About 10 Metres North North West of North Porch of Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-tallow-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 821 450
- Coordinates
- 50.29321, -3.65624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located about 10 metres north-northwest of the north porch of the Church of St James in Slapton, dates from around 1832. It is made of dressed slate and features a chamfered cornice with an unmoulded slate lid. The lid is inscribed in upper case with serifs, commemorating Susanna Hodge and Jonathan Hodge, who died in 1832. At the east end of the chest, there is a limestone gravestone with a shaped head, which has a badly weathered inscription dedicated to one or more members of the Hodge family.
Local climate
Chest Tomb About 10 Metres North North West of North Porch of Church of St James receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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