Chest Tomb 5 Metres South East of Porch at Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Tomb.
Chest Tomb 5 Metres South East of Porch at Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- peeling-rafter-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SP 746 144
- Coordinates
- 51.824, -0.91895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located 5 meters southeast of the porch at the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, dates from 1707 and is made of ironstone. It features a moulded plinth, with the long sides having a moulded frame that encloses three fielded panels. The end panels consist of a single panel each. An inscription on the west end panel is partly legible and reads: "(Here) lyeth (interre)d ye d bones of (le)wis Felle, Late of Wadd, Gent, who departed this life (....) 1707 (....)".
Local climate
Chest Tomb 5 Metres South East of Porch at Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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