Bragg Chest Tomb Approximately 9 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Chest tomb.
Bragg Chest Tomb Approximately 9 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- plain-brass-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 701 875
- Coordinates
- 50.67276, -3.83956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bragg chest tomb, located approximately 9 metres west of the tower of the Church of St Michael in Chagford, is a chest tomb dated 1819 in memory of Isaac Bragg. It is constructed from granite ashlar and features plain ashlar sides with a soffit-moulded flat lid. The lid is inscribed in plain bold capitals, recording the death of Isaac Bragg in 1819.
Local climate
Bragg Chest Tomb Approximately 9 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Michael receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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