Chest tomb at 6 metres south of west end of Church of Saint Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Monument, tomb.
Chest tomb at 6 metres south of west end of Church of Saint Michael
- WRENN ID
- hushed-shingle-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Monument, tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 855 821
- Coordinates
- 50.6279, -3.619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb, dated 1791, is located 6 metres south of the west end of the Church of Saint Michael in Trusham. It features a ledger stone made of Ashburton marble, which is a local limestone. The stone is rectangular except for the west end, which is carved into a scroll shape. The ledger stone overhangs an unmoulded granite ashlar base made up of four stone blocks resting on a compacted mortar foundation.
The inscription on the ledger stone reads:
‘Here lieth y b[ody] of James Ball [,] son of John [&] Joanna Ball of Bremble Who died [y] 10[th] Day of April In y year of o[ur] Lord 179[?] Aged 66 years’
The inscription has suffered some erosion due to weathering, historic breaks, and minor loss of fabric at the edges of the slab, but the dates and names have been confirmed through local burial records. In 2020, the tomb was reordered to reset the broken ledger slab and repair the pointing in the fabric below, which revealed that the core of the tomb was filled with rubble and fragments of brick and tile.
Local climate
Chest tomb at 6 metres south of west end of Church of Saint Michael 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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