Pair of Chest Tombs Immediately South-East of the Chancel of the Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. Chest tombs.
Pair of Chest Tombs Immediately South-East of the Chancel of the Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- rough-granite-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1988
- Type
- Chest tombs
- Address
- Pair of Chest Tombs Immediately South-East of the Chancel of the Church of St Thomas, Mamhead
- OS grid reference
- SX 931 808
- Coordinates
- 50.61717, -3.51197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of chest tombs located immediately south-east of the chancel of the Church of St Thomas. They date from the early and late 19th century. The southern tomb is a low coped chest that includes surrounding railings topped with spear finials and columnar corner standards with finials. The inscription commemorates John Harding, who died in 1862. The northern tomb is likely an early 19th-century chest featuring corner pilasters and a moulded lid, although its inscription is illegible.
Local climate
Pair of Chest Tombs Immediately South-East of the Chancel of the Church of St Thomas receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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