Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, One Metre South of South Aisle, Church of the Holy Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. Chest tomb.
Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, One Metre South of South Aisle, Church of the Holy Cross
- WRENN ID
- errant-lancet-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Address
- Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, One Metre South of South Aisle, Church of the Holy Cross, Sampford Arundel
- OS grid reference
- ST 107 188
- Coordinates
- 50.96243, -3.27216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century chest tomb located one metre south of the south aisle of the Church of the Holy Cross in Sampford Arundel. It is made of Ham stone and sits on a rubble base. The tomb features a ledger top with a continuous moulded cornice surrounding projecting angle columns, and there are centre columns on the long sides. The ashlar facing is missing, and the tomb is sunk, projecting about 300 millimetres above the ground.
Local climate
Unidentified Monument in Churchyard, One Metre South of South Aisle, Church of the Holy Cross receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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