Limbery Monument in the Churchyard 5 Metres South East of Porch, Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Limbery Monument in the Churchyard 5 Metres South East of Porch, Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- seventh-courtyard-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- ST 479 325
- Coordinates
- 51.08964, -2.74453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limbery monument is a chest tomb located in the churchyard, 5 metres southeast of the porch of the Church of St Andrew. It dates from the 18th century and is made of Ham stone with Keinton stone slabs. The tomb features a moulded base, single-panel ends, and two-panel flanks adorned with swag decoration on the flanking pilasters. There is a partially carved frieze, and the top is almost flat with rounded edges. This monument commemorates John Limbery, who died in 1758.
Local climate
Limbery Monument in the Churchyard 5 Metres South East of Porch, Church of St Andrew receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Limbry Monument in the Churchyard, 4 Metres South East of Porch, Church of St Andrew
- 2 Ludlam Monument in Churchyard, About 500 Millimetres North of Vestry, Church of St Michael and All Angels
- 3 Unidentified Chest Tomb 1.5 Metres West of Tower, Church of Saint Mary
- 4 Limbrick Chest Tomb, 4 Yards South West of South Chapel of St Leonard's Church
- 5 Lewis Monument in Churchyard About 8 Metres North East of Chancel, Church of All Saints
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings