Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, About 11 Metres South of Nave, Church of St Vigor is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1986. Monument.
Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, About 11 Metres South of Nave, Church of St Vigor
- WRENN ID
- under-trefoil-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- ST 659 507
- Coordinates
- 51.25506, -2.48952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an unidentified chest tomb from the 18th century located about 11 meters south of the nave of the Church of St. Vigor in Stratton-on-the-Fosse. It is made of dressed stone and features a buried plinth. The tomb has an oblong shape with carved corner pilasters and a central pilaster on both the north and south sides. It includes a moulded frieze and a damaged hipped slab top that is moulded around its lower edge. The inscriptions on the tomb are significantly decayed.
Local climate
Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, About 11 Metres South of Nave, Church of St Vigor receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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