Melcland Chest Tomb Approximately 3 Metres North of Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Tomb.
Melcland Chest Tomb Approximately 3 Metres North of Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- muted-granite-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 653 944
- Coordinates
- 50.73439, -3.91005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Melcland chest tomb, located approximately 3 metres north of the Church of St Andrew, is a Grade II listed structure dated 1730 in memory of Thomas Melcland. It is made of granite ashlar and features plain sides with a flat soffit-chamfered lid. The lid is inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, which records the death of Thomas Melcland in 1730.
Local climate
Melcland Chest Tomb Approximately 3 Metres North of Church of St Andrew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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