Chest Tomb 30 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Thomas is a Grade II* listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. A C17 Tomb.
Chest Tomb 30 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- narrow-rotunda-jet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 820 786
- Coordinates
- 50.59521, -3.66736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb, dating from 1655, is located 30 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St Thomas in Bovey Tracey. It is made of granite ashlar and features an inscription on the front, a coat-of-arms at the east end, and a skull and crossbones at the west end. The gable-ended cap also displays another coat-of-arms and an inscription on the front; a thistle is found at the east end and a rose at the west end. On the ridge of the tomb are three squat obelisks: the centre one is carved with a mermaid, the left-hand one with a flower, and the right-hand one with a thistle. This tomb commemorates Maria Forbes, who died in 1655, and was the wife of James Forbes, a former vicar who was ejected during the Commonwealth. The tomb is not in its original position; in 1826 it was noted to be 'near the south-west wall of the church', and an 1836 drawing shows it just south of the south-east corner of the south aisle.
Local climate
Chest Tomb 30 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Thomas receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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