Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, About 6 Metres South of Porch, Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Chest tomb.
Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, About 6 Metres South of Porch, Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- white-bonework-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 601 278
- Coordinates
- 51.04887, -2.56957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an unidentified chest tomb from the 17th century, located about 6 meters south of the porch of the Church of St Peter in South Barrow. It is made of Doulting stone, with its base buried. The tomb features plain sides and flanks, a dentilled frieze, and a rounded edged flat top. The inscriptions on the tomb are mostly buried and largely undecipherable.
Local climate
Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, About 6 Metres South of Porch, Church of St Peter 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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