Richard How Chest Tomb, 3 Metres West of Tower, Church of St Pancras is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Chest tomb.
Richard How Chest Tomb, 3 Metres West of Tower, Church of St Pancras
- WRENN ID
- empty-keep-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 168 337
- Coordinates
- 51.09657, -3.18915
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Richard How chest tomb, located 3 metres west of the tower at the Church of St. Pancras, dates from the late 18th century. It is made of white limestone and features a casket design with a ledger top, deep cavetto moulding, steeply canted sides, and claw feet that rest on a plinth. Each face of the tomb has moulded inscription panels, with the east side dedicated to Richard How, who died in 1791.
Local climate
Richard How Chest Tomb, 3 Metres West of Tower, Church of St Pancras receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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