Battishill Chest Tomb Approximately 4 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Tomb.
Battishill Chest Tomb Approximately 4 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- grey-jamb-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 697 967
- Coordinates
- 50.75537, -3.84789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Battishill chest tomb, located approximately 4 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St Mary, dates from 1733 and commemorates William Battishill. It is constructed of red brick with a grey basalt lid. The tomb is rectangular in shape with plain sides, featuring a central projecting string course and a soffit-chamfered cornice, topped by a plain flat lid. The lid is inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, noting the death of William Battishill in 1733. Additionally, there is a secondary slate plaque on the north side, also inscribed in similar lettering, which records the deaths of another William, who was the nephew of the first, in 1760, and his wife Mary in 1778. The use of brick for this tomb in 1733 is notably early for this part of Devon.
Local climate
Battishill Chest Tomb Approximately 4 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Michael receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Chest Tomb, by South Wall of Church of St. Mary Magdalene
- 2 Shippard Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- 3 Chest tomb in north-east corner of the churchyard of Parish Church of St Mary
- 4 Group of 13 Chest Tombs Approximately 5-16 Metres South and West of Southtransept of Church of St Mary
- 5 Battishill Headstone Approximately 0.5 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Michael
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings