Pair of Tomb Slabs at Either Side of Top Step Immediately South of Entrance to South Porch of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. A Medieval Tomb slabs. 1 related planning application.
Pair of Tomb Slabs at Either Side of Top Step Immediately South of Entrance to South Porch of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- WRENN ID
- rusted-loft-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Tomb slabs
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Pair of Tomb Slabs at Either Side of Top Step Immediately South of Entrance to South Porch of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Bradley Road, Bovey Tracey
- OS grid reference
- SX 820 785
- Coordinates
- 50.59516, -3.66757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This description is for a pair of matching medieval tomb slabs located on either side of the top step immediately south of the entrance to the south porch of the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury in Bovey Tracey. The slabs are made of granite, each measuring about 2 metres long and 75 centimetres wide. Each slab features a long incised cross with hands and arms extending outward, along with a rectangular ornament at the foot of each cross, which is partly obliterated. The slabs have likely been re-set.
Local climate
Pair of Tomb Slabs at Either Side of Top Step Immediately South of Entrance to South Porch of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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