Three Chest Tombs Approximately 12 Metres to North 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. Chest tomb.
Three Chest Tombs Approximately 12 Metres to North of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- seventh-panel-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SO 964 204
- Coordinates
- 51.88274, -2.05309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are three chest tombs located approximately 12 metres to the north of the Church of St Mary in Charlton Kings. The tombs include an altar-type tomb for William Finch, who died in 1819; a tea caddy type tomb for Thomas Smith, who died in 1829, and his wife Margaret, who died in 1803; and an early 19th-century chest tomb. All three tombs are made of stone. The Finch tomb features a shaped plinth, clasping fluted pilasters, a raised rectangular inscription panel, a frieze, a cornice, and a shallow pyramidal cap. The Smith tomb has clasping fluted pilasters, an enriched frieze, oval memorial tablets, and a tented capping topped with an iron urn. The early 19th-century chest tomb has a shaped plinth, clasping fluted pilasters, a fielded inscription panel with beading and a worn inscription, and a surmounting slab with cavetto under-moulding.
Local climate
Three Chest Tombs Approximately 12 Metres to North 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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