Edward Buller Box Tomb, in Churchyard 5 Metres South of Vestry, Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Tomb.
Edward Buller Box Tomb, in Churchyard 5 Metres South of Vestry, Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- hollow-frieze-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 056 377
- Coordinates
- 51.13117, -3.34916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Edward Buller Box Tomb, located in the churchyard 5 metres south of the vestry at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, is a late 18th-century box tomb made of sandstone with an inserted marble panel. It stands approximately 800 mm high and 300 mm wide. The tomb has a flat top and a rectangular shape, featuring three tiers of paired raised and fielded squares on the north and south sides. The east side is blank, while the west side has a moulded surround with an inserted panel inscribed to Edward Buller, who died in 1769. This tomb has a very unusual shape for its type.
Local climate
Edward Buller Box Tomb, in Churchyard 5 Metres South of Vestry, Church of St Mary the Virgin receives an average of 940 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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