Haggett Chest Tomb, 4 Metres South East of South Porch to Church of Saint Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Chest tomb.
Haggett Chest Tomb, 4 Metres South East of South Porch to Church of Saint Mary
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 512 119
- Coordinates
- 50.90463, -2.69487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Haggett Chest Tomb, located 4 metres southeast of the south porch of the Church of Saint Mary, is a 17th-century chest tomb made of Ham stone with a rectangular plan. The base is sunken with plain sides, and it features a heavy flat top that has cyma recta coving. There is an incised border on the north flank, although the inscription has been lost. The south side of the tomb commemorates John Haggett, who died in 1773.
Local climate
Haggett Chest Tomb, 4 Metres South East of South Porch to Church of Saint Mary receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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