Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Swithun is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1998. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Swithun
- WRENN ID
- stony-bonework-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1998
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SO 813 170
- Coordinates
- 51.85151, -2.27189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located approximately 5 meters south of the chancel of the Church of St Swithun, dates from 1765. The inscriptions on its sides are not legible. It is constructed from dressed and carved stone slabs, featuring a chest made of upright slabs set on a base slab with a moulded edge. The capping slab also has a projecting moulded edge, and each end of the tomb is adorned with a carved gadroon moulding.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Swithun receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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