Glanville Chest Tomb About 11 Metres North of Church of St Michael De Rupe is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Chest tomb.
Glanville Chest Tomb About 11 Metres North of Church of St Michael De Rupe
- WRENN ID
- mired-thatch-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 470 804
- Coordinates
- 50.60337, -4.16247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Glanville chest tomb, located about 11 meters north of the Church of St Michael de Rupe, is a late 19th-century structure. It is made of coursed slatestone rubble and features a slate lid. This tomb commemorates Joseph Glanville, who died in 1856, along with other members of the Glanville family.
Local climate
Glanville Chest Tomb About 11 Metres North of Church of St Michael De Rupe sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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