Foss Chest Tomb Approximately 3 Metres South of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Chest tomb.
Foss Chest Tomb Approximately 3 Metres South of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- dark-oriel-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1993
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 727 567
- Coordinates
- 50.39686, -3.79182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Foss chest tomb, located approximately 3 metres south of the Church of St Mary in Dipford, dates from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed from slate and limestone. The tomb features a moulded slate plinth and a moulded slate lid that does not have an inscription. There are two slate panels on each side and one panel at each end, all separated by limestone pilasters at the sides and corners. Each slate panel contains an engraved moulded oval with inscriptions in memory of various members of the Foss family, with the earliest being Mary, who died in 1834, the wife of John Langworthy Foss. The tomb is heavily overgrown with ivy.
Local climate
Foss Chest Tomb Approximately 3 Metres South of Church of St Mary receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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