Chest Tomb Approximately 12 Metres West of Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 12 Metres West of Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- small-tracery-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 632 012
- Coordinates
- 50.79476, -3.94238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located approximately 12 metres west of the Church of St Andrew in Sampford Courtenay, is likely from the early 18th century. It features sides made of granite ashlar and a granite lid with a chamfered underside. The lid also has an illegible border pattern and inscription.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 12 Metres West of Church of St Andrew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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