Row of 6 Chest Tombs Approximately 20 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1988. Chest tombs.
Row of 6 Chest Tombs Approximately 20 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- graven-tracery-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1988
- Type
- Chest tombs
- OS grid reference
- SP 951 927
- Coordinates
- 52.52434, -0.59893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of six chest tombs located approximately 20 meters west of the tower of the Church of St. Peter. They date from the late 18th century and 19th century and are made of limestone ashlar. Five of the chest tombs feature pairs of bolection moulded pilasters at their corners, while the second tomb from the north end has plain panelled pilasters. The southernmost tomb is from the mid-19th century and is not considered to have special architectural interest. All the tombs have partially legible inscriptions dedicated to the Yorke family.
Local climate
Row of 6 Chest Tombs Approximately 20 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Peter sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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