Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard, About 3 Metres North of Tower, Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Chest tomb.
Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard, About 3 Metres North of Tower, Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- sacred-buttress-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 232 196
- Coordinates
- 50.97156, -3.09457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an unidentified chest tomb located in the churchyard about 3 meters north of the tower of the Church of St Nicholas. It dates from around 1860 and is possibly the work of C. E. Giles. The tomb has a flat top with a moulded cornice and plinth. Each of its four sides features a continuous arcade of interlocking arches in the Romanesque style, which is similar to the organ screen and bench fronts found inside St Michael's Church. The top of the tomb is inscribed, but the inscription is illegible. It may be the tomb of the donor who contributed to the addition of the south aisle.
Local climate
Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard, About 3 Metres North of Tower, Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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