Wayne Chest Tomb About 3 Metres South East of the Chancel of the Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. A C19 Chest tomb.
Wayne Chest Tomb About 3 Metres South East of the Chancel of the Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- drifting-gargoyle-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 871 728
- Coordinates
- 50.54445, -3.5934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wayne chest tomb, located about 3 metres southeast of the chancel of the Church of St Michael, is an early 19th-century chest tomb made of white freestone and local grey limestone. It features sunk panels of grey limestone and an oversailing lid. The inscription on the east end commemorates James Waye, who died in 1801.
Local climate
Wayne Chest Tomb About 3 Metres South East of the Chancel of the Church of St Michael 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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