Lamb Family Altar Tomb, 4 Metres South of the South East Corner of the Chancel, Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1984. Tomb.
Lamb Family Altar Tomb, 4 Metres South of the South East Corner of the Chancel, Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- pale-kitchen-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 580 246
- Coordinates
- 51.01935, -2.59963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lamb family altar tomb, located 4 metres south of the southeast corner of the chancel at the Church of All Saints, dates from 1760. It is made of Ham stone and measures about 1 metre square in plan. The tomb features a tall plinth with one square fielded panel on each face and a moulded top that has a flat base suitable for an urn or obelisk. The inscription suggests it commemorates the Lamb family and was possibly erected in 1760.
Local climate
Lamb Family Altar Tomb, 4 Metres South of the South East Corner of the Chancel, Church of All Saints 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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