Molineux Chest Tomb 10 Yards South of Church of St Anne is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Tomb.
Molineux Chest Tomb 10 Yards South of Church of St Anne
- WRENN ID
- inner-postern-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- TQ 409 099
- Coordinates
- 50.8722, 0.00181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Molineux chest tomb, located 10 yards south of the Church of St Anne, is a Grade II listed structure dating from around 1850. This stone chest tomb is designed in a neo-Norman style. It features a stepped base that supports the chest tomb, which has two arched panels on the sides and single panels at the ends. The round arches are adorned with dogtooth decoration on piers that have impost mouldings, along with a secondary order of columns that include moulded bases and scalloped capitals. The lid of the tomb is finished with a dogtooth cornice. The tomb is inscribed to George Molineux, who died in 185?.
Local climate
Molineux Chest Tomb 10 Yards South of Church of St Anne receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard 500 Millimetres South of South Aisle, Church of St Mary the Virgin
- 2 Chest Tomb 20 Metres North West of Church of St Mary
- 3 Tomb Chest About 20 Metres South South West of Church of St Michael
- 4 Chest Tomb Approximately 13 Metres South of South West Corner of Church of St Peter and St Paul
- 5 Cobbett Chest Tomb and Area Railings Immediately North of Church of St Andrew
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings