Braginton Chest Tomb Approximately 8 Metres North of the Aisle of the Churhc of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Monument.
Braginton Chest Tomb Approximately 8 Metres North of the Aisle of the Churhc of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- iron-buttress-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SS 533 189
- Coordinates
- 50.95149, -4.08957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Braginton chest tomb, dated 1842, is located approximately 8 metres north of the aisle of the Church of St Giles in the Wood. This chest tomb is made of hard purple-coloured metamorphic stone and has a rectangular shape. It rests on a moulded plinth, and its flat lid features moulded edges. Each side of the tomb contains a single rectangular panel. The southern panel is inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, commemorating the deaths of George Braginton in 1842 and Richard Braginton in 1850.
Local climate
Braginton Chest Tomb Approximately 8 Metres North of the Aisle of the Churhc of St Giles receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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