Unidentified Monument in Churchyard About 10 Metres South of Porch, Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Monument.
Unidentified Monument in Churchyard About 10 Metres South of Porch, Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-gargoyle-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 308
- Coordinates
- 51.07526, -2.57706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century chest tomb located about 10 meters south of the porch of the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury in Lovington. It is made of Doulting stone and features Keinton slabs. The base is buried, and the plain slabs on the flanks and ends have incised work that is mostly eroded away. The tomb has a deep cyma-recta coving to its hipped top, but no inscription is discernible.
Local climate
Unidentified Monument in Churchyard About 10 Metres South of Porch, Church of St Thomas of Canterbury receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- No related consent applications matched
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