Herbert Family Chest Tomb in Churchyard, 1.5 Metres South of Tower, Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Tomb.
Herbert Family Chest Tomb in Churchyard, 1.5 Metres South of Tower, Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- salt-bronze-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 222 297
- Coordinates
- 51.06146, -3.11046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Herbert family chest tomb, located in the churchyard 1.5 metres south of the tower at the Church of St Mary, dates from around 1930 and is likely the work of G S Goodhart-Rendel. It is made of Portland stone and features a stepped hipped roof, a moulded cornice, and a curved plinth. The tomb has applied pilasters and displays coats of arms at both the east and west ends. A carved shell and flower frieze encircles the panels, which are inscribed on the north side to Mary Elizabeth Herbert, who died in 1979, and on the south side to Mervyn Robert Howard Molyneux Herbert, who died in 1929. This tomb is an interesting example of a 20th-century chest tomb.
Local climate
Herbert Family Chest Tomb in Churchyard, 1.5 Metres South of Tower, 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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