Chest Tomb Approximately 1.5 Metres to South Porch of Church of St. Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 1.5 Metres to South Porch of Church of St. Andrew
- WRENN ID
- spare-hall-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 490 683
- Coordinates
- 50.4952, -4.13014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dated 1647, is located approximately 1.5 metres south of the south porch of the Church of St. Andrew in Buckland Monachorum. It features coursed stone rubble walls, a chamfered plinth, and a coved cornice. The slate lid has an illegible border inscription, and there is an epitaph at the centre surrounded by a decorative border at the bottom.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 1.5 Metres to South Porch of Church of St. Andrew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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