Chest Tomb Approximately 7 Metres West of Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 7 Metres West of Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- gilded-groin-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 384 132
- Coordinates
- 50.89613, -4.2985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located approximately 7 metres west of the Church of St James, commemorates John Jollowe who died in 1717 and Elizabeth Blake who died in 1818. It features stone rubble sides and a slate lid with a chamfered soffit.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 7 Metres West of Church of St James sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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