Brinsmead Chest Tomb Approximately 14 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1986. Chest tomb.
Brinsmead Chest Tomb Approximately 14 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- tangled-timber-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 533 189
- Coordinates
- 50.95108, -4.0893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Brinsmead chest tomb, located approximately 14 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St Giles, is a Grade II listed structure dated 1884. It commemorates Thomas and Emily Brinsmead and is made of granite. The tomb is a plain rectangular block without adornments, featuring plain lead letters on its long sides. The south side notes the death of Emily Brinsmead in 1883, while the north side records the death of Thomas Brinsmead in 1884. This chest tomb is notable for its simplicity and severity, especially considering its early date.
Local climate
Brinsmead Chest Tomb Approximately 14 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church 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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