Whitbye chest tomb 6 metres south of south-east corner of chancel of the Church of Saint Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1984. A Early Modern Chest tomb.
Whitbye chest tomb 6 metres south of south-east corner of chancel of the Church of Saint Mary
- WRENN ID
- long-pedestal-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Period
- Early Modern
- OS grid reference
- ST 573 199
- Coordinates
- 50.97718, -2.60845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whitbye chest tomb, located 6 metres south of the south-east corner of the chancel of the Church of Saint Mary, dates from 1635. It is made of Ham stone and has a rectangular plan. The base is set below ground, and the sides and flanks are plain. There are brass plaques on one side and one flank, and it features a dentil moulded flat top. The tomb commemorates William Whitbye, who died in 1635, and his wife.
Local climate
Whitbye chest tomb 6 metres south of south-east corner of chancel of the Church of Saint Mary 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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