Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard, About 3 Metres South of Porch, Church of St Auguistine is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Chest tomb.
Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard, About 3 Metres South of Porch, Church of St Auguistine
- WRENN ID
- mired-finial-tarn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 263 284
- Coordinates
- 51.05055, -3.05276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a chest tomb located about 3 metres south of the porch of the Church of St Augustine, dating from the late 17th century. It is made of Ham stone and features a flat top. The frieze is ornately carved with lions' masks, diamonds, and rosettes. There are segmental-headed bays with decorated spandrels set between caryatids on the north and south faces. At the east end, there is a cartouche below an angel's head, while the west end displays a skull and crossbones that is partially sunk below ground. Although the inscriptions are no longer legible, the date 1683/8 can still be discerned on the north face. This is a very handsome chest tomb.
Local climate
Unidentified Chest Tomb in Churchyard, About 3 Metres South of Porch, Church of St Auguistine receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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