Tomb Chest and Headstone 2 Metres West of North West Corner of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Tomb chest, headstone.
Tomb Chest and Headstone 2 Metres West of North West Corner of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- winter-transept-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Tomb chest, headstone
- OS grid reference
- SO 964 204
- Coordinates
- 51.88261, -2.05322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This tomb chest and headstone, located 2 meters west of the north-west corner of the Church of St Mary, dates from around 1676 to 1735. It is made of stone and features a tomb chest with carved scroll end brackets, swags, and corner cherubs surrounding oval panels. The headstone is topped with two cherub heads and a book.
Local climate
Tomb Chest and Headstone 2 Metres West of North West Corner of Church of St Mary receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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