Chest Tomb Approximately 3.5 Metres South of Church of St German is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 3.5 Metres South of Church of St German
- WRENN ID
- heavy-keep-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 438 941
- Coordinates
- 50.72582, -4.21317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb is located approximately 3.5 metres south of the Church of St. German in Germansweek. It is dated variously to 1667, 1680, 1694, and 1763 and is associated with Roger Seckham and other family members. The tomb features rubble stone sides and a slate lid, which has a border inscription along with two additional inscriptions at the centre, including a rhyming epitaph below.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 3.5 Metres South of Church of St German sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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