Row of 3 Chest Tombs and One to the East About 20 Metres North of the North Transept of 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.
Row of 3 Chest Tombs and One to the East About 20 Metres North of the North Transept of Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- twisted-attic-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1988
- Type
- Chest tombs
- OS grid reference
- SX 915 704
- Coordinates
- 50.52381, -3.53118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a row of four chest tombs, consisting of three in a row and one to the east, located about 20 metres north of the north transept of the Church of St Andrew in Stokeinteignhead. These tombs date from the 19th century and are made of freestone. They are rectangular in shape, featuring plinths, corner pilasters, and oversailing lids. The eastern tomb is lower and has a plain chest with a moulded lid. The southernmost tomb in the row commemorates James Brockington Hope, who died in 1858. The next tomb north commemorates Elias Hore, who died in 1862, while the northernmost tomb is for Edward Hunt, who died in 1848. The inscription on the eastern tomb is partly illegible, but it has a memorial date of 1841.
Local climate
Row of 3 Chest Tombs and One to the East About 20 Metres North of the North Transept of Church of St Andrew receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% 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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