Monument in Churchyard Immediately South of Chancel of Church of St Martin is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. A C18 Monument.
Monument in Churchyard Immediately South of Chancel of Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- white-passage-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument in Churchyard Immediately South of Chancel of Church of St Martin, Church Street, Kingsbury Episcopi
- OS grid reference
- ST 436 210
- Coordinates
- 50.98637, -2.80398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 18th-century chest tomb is located in the churchyard immediately south of the chancel of the Church of St. Martin in Kingsbury Episcopi. It is made of dressed stone and features a moulded plinth. The tomb has an oblong shape with corner pilasters and an inscription on the north side. The top is a hipped slab.
Local climate
Monument in Churchyard Immediately South of Chancel of Church of St Martin receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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.
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