Pair of Monuments in Churchyard, About 8 Metres North of Chancel, Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Tomb.
Pair of Monuments in Churchyard, About 8 Metres North of Chancel, Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-plaster-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1987
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 321 172
- Coordinates
- 50.95088, -2.96764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of monuments, located about 8 metres north of the chancel of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are 17th-century chest tombs made of Ham stone. They feature moulded plinths, plain sides and flanks, and cyma-recta covings leading to heavy flat tops. The eastern tomb commemorates William Crabb, whose death date is not legible, and James Crabb, who died in 1691. The western tomb commemorates the wife of an unknown individual, who died in 1601.
Local climate
Pair of Monuments in Churchyard, About 8 Metres North of Chancel, Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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