Baul Chest Tomb, in Churchyard 3 Metres North of Chancel of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Chest tomb.
Baul Chest Tomb, in Churchyard 3 Metres North of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- wild-rampart-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 778 530
- Coordinates
- 51.27579, -2.31938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baul chest tomb, located in the churchyard 3 metres north of the chancel of the Church of St. Mary, is a Grade II listed structure dedicated to Christopher Baul and dated 1762. It is made of ashlar stone and features a chest design with scrolled corner pilasters. Each side has a central band adorned with relief carvings of skulls and angels. There are also oval plaques on either side, which bear inscriptions that have significantly deteriorated, with only the script on the south-west panel remaining legible. The tomb is topped with a hipped slab and has a moulded cornice.
Local climate
Baul Chest Tomb, in Churchyard 3 Metres North of Chancel of Church of St Mary 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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