Chest Tomb About 10 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. Tomb.
Chest Tomb About 10 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- heavy-wattle-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 769 483
- Coordinates
- 50.32205, -3.72974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from the 17th century, is located about 10 metres south of the tower of the Church of St Andrew in East Allington. It is made of dressed slate and features a slate lid. On the north side, there is a slate plaque inscribed in Gothic script that reads, "To the memory of Mary.... Hynde of Poole died 1676."
Local climate
Chest Tomb About 10 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Andrew 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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