Pair of Chest Tombs 8 Yards South of All Saints' Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Chest tombs.
Pair of Chest Tombs 8 Yards South of All Saints' Church
- WRENN ID
- turning-iron-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- Chest tombs
- OS grid reference
- TQ 417 100
- Coordinates
- 50.87224, 0.01352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of chest tombs located 8 yards south of All Saints' Church, dating from the mid-18th century. They are made of stone, with the tomb to the west featuring inset granite panels that are inscribed. The tombs have moulded plinths, gadrooned square baluster corners, and moulded corniced lids. The inscriptions on the tombs were illegible at the time of the last survey.
Local climate
Pair of Chest Tombs 8 Yards South of All Saints' Church 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.
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