Group of 3 Chest Tombs About 6 Metres South of the Centre of Aisle of the Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. Chest tombs.
Group of 3 Chest Tombs About 6 Metres South of the Centre of Aisle of the Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- endless-plaster-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1988
- Type
- Chest tombs
- OS grid reference
- SX 921 856
- Coordinates
- 50.66083, -3.52663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of three chest tombs located about 6 metres south of the centre of the aisle of the Church of St Andrew. The tombs date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The southernmost tomb is made of volcanic trap and features an oversailing lid, with an inscription commemorating a member of the Tucker family who died in the 17th century (the last two numbers of the date are illegible). The middle tomb is low and also has an oversailing lid, with remnants of a 17th-century inscription. The easternmost tomb is made of red sandstone, has an oversailing lid, and features an illegible inscription.
Local climate
Group of 3 Chest Tombs About 6 Metres South of the Centre of Aisle of the Church of St Andrew receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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