Dodge Chest Tomb, 8 Metres North East of Churchyard Cross, Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Chest tomb.
Dodge Chest Tomb, 8 Metres North East of Churchyard Cross, Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- watchful-loft-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 563 100
- Coordinates
- 50.88852, -2.62125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dodge Chest Tomb, located 8 meters northeast of the churchyard cross at the Church of All Saints, is a 19th-century chest tomb made of Ham stone. It features a moulded plinth and has one fielded panel on each face, with coffered pilasters on the sides. The top of the tomb is relatively thin and almost flat. It commemorates Mary Dodge, who died in 1817, and Samuel Dodge, who died in 1840.
Local climate
Dodge Chest Tomb, 8 Metres North East of Churchyard Cross, Church of All Saints receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 64% 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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