Harding and Sloley Chest Tomb, Immediately Adjacent to South Side of South Porch of Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Chest tomb.
Harding and Sloley Chest Tomb, Immediately Adjacent to South Side of South Porch of Church of St Thomas
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 622 438
- Coordinates
- 51.17699, -3.97171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Harding and Sloley chest tomb, located immediately adjacent to the south side of the south porch of the Church of St. Thomas, is a chest tomb from the mid-19th century. It features a brick plinth and a coffin-shaped slate slab that bears inscriptions dedicated to the Harding and Sloley families.
Local climate
Harding and Sloley Chest Tomb, Immediately Adjacent to South Side of South Porch of Church of St Thomas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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