Robert Hancock Chest Tomb, 6 Metres South-West of South Porch, Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Tomb.
Robert Hancock Chest Tomb, 6 Metres South-West of South Porch, Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- dim-steeple-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 127 321
- Coordinates
- 51.08174, -3.24635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Robert Hancock chest tomb, located 6 metres south-west of the south porch of the Church of St Lawrence, dates from the early 19th century and has been partly reset. It is constructed from Ham stone and Doulting stone. The tomb features a ledger top, a moulded cornice, and a plinth, with curved inset panels on the east and west ends that display Maltese crosses. The south side has an inserted panel of Forest of Dean stone inscribed to Robert Hancock, who died in 1825, while the north side is inscribed to Jane Hancock, who died in 1849. The cornice has damage at the north-west corner.
Local climate
Robert Hancock Chest Tomb, 6 Metres South-West of South Porch, Church of St Lawrence receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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