Four Headstones and Tomb Chest 5 Metres West of South West Corner of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1998. A C17 Tombstones and tomb chest.
Four Headstones and Tomb Chest 5 Metres West of South West Corner of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- long-hinge-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1998
- Type
- Tombstones and tomb chest
- Period
- C17
- OS grid reference
- SO 964 204
- Coordinates
- 51.88242, -2.05323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Four headstones and a tomb chest are located 5 meters west of the south-west corner of the Church of St Mary in Charlton Kings. The site includes three late 17th century headstones and a Neoclassical altar-type tomb chest. The headstones, situated approximately 3 meters west of the church's south-west corner, feature distinct designs: one has a segmental-arched head with carved drapery, another displays a central cherub-head above an oval cartouche, and the third has an elliptically arched head with incised volutes. The headstone for Thomas Jeffes, who died in 1666, is located about 6 meters west of the church and features worn scroll embellishment. The altar tomb, positioned approximately 5 meters west of the church, rests on a shaped plinth and has an oval inscription tablet on each side, although the inscriptions are worn. It also features a frieze with partly-eroded scroll decoration, a moulded cornice, and a scalloped pyramidal cap.
Local climate
Four Headstones and Tomb Chest 5 Metres West of South 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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