Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard, About 1 Metre East of South Porch, Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. Chest tomb.
Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard, About 1 Metre East of South Porch, Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- lost-mortar-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 111 229
- Coordinates
- 50.99884, -3.26729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an unidentified chest tomb located in the churchyard, about 1 meter east of the south porch of the Church of St Peter. The tomb is made of Ham stone and features a flat top with a deep cavetto moulded cornice and a chamfered plinth. The south face has an inset rectangular panel that was inscribed in Gothic lettering, although the inscription is no longer legible. The other sides of the tomb are plain.
Local climate
Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard, About 1 Metre East of South Porch, Church of St Peter receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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