Unidentified Chest Tomb Circa 5 Metres East of South Porch Door of Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II* listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. A Baroque Chest tomb.
Unidentified Chest Tomb Circa 5 Metres East of South Porch Door of Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- vacant-ashlar-grove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Period
- Baroque
- OS grid reference
- SO 740 035
- Coordinates
- 51.73005, -2.37729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an unidentified chest tomb dating from the early 18th century, located approximately 5 meters east of the south porch door of the Church of St John the Evangelist. The tomb is made of limestone and features a cyma top, a cavetto base, and lyre ends with potti heads. It has a richly decorated north inscription panel in a cartouche, along with a potti and a square raised mould panel on the south side, which also includes potti. The inscription is badly worn, but one date may be 1707. This tomb is considered a very fine example of Cotswold funerary art, although it was leaning at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Unidentified Chest Tomb Circa 5 Metres East of South Porch Door of Church of St John the Evangelist receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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