Unidentified Chest Tomb, 8 Metres West of South Porch, Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Monument.
Unidentified Chest Tomb, 8 Metres West of South Porch, Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-quartz-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- ST 127 321
- Coordinates
- 51.08178, -3.24644
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an unidentified chest tomb located 8 metres west of the south porch of the Church of St Lawrence. It dates from the mid-18th century and is made of ham stone. The tomb features a flat top with a cavetto moulded cornice and a moulded plinth. The north and west faces are blank, while the south and east faces have inscriptions that are mostly illegible, although the date 1746 can be seen on the east face.
Local climate
Unidentified Chest Tomb, 8 Metres West of South Porch, Church of St Lawrence 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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