Beer Chest Tomb, 4 Metres South of South East Corner of Nave, Church of Saint Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Tomb.
Beer Chest Tomb, 4 Metres South of South East Corner of Nave, Church of Saint Mary
- WRENN ID
- winding-span-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 512 119
- Coordinates
- 50.90471, -2.69474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beer Chest Tomb, located 4 metres south of the southeast corner of the nave at the Church of Saint Mary, is an early 18th-century chest tomb made of Ham stone. It has a rectangular plan with a moulded base and recessed end panels. Each side features two recessed panels flanked by plain pilasters, and it is topped with a heavy moulded hipped top. While most inscriptions have been lost, one panel on the north flank commemorates George Beer, who died in 1837.
Local climate
Beer Chest Tomb, 4 Metres South of South East Corner of Nave, Church of Saint Mary receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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