Chest Tomb Approximately 23 Metres to North West of West Door of Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Monument.
Chest Tomb Approximately 23 Metres to North West of West Door of Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- floating-pier-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- ST 322 082
- Coordinates
- 50.86955, -2.96391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from the early 18th century, is located approximately 23 metres to the north-west of the west door of the Parish Church in Chard. It is made of limestone and features a shallow hipped top with cyma-recta moulding along the cornice and plinth. The sides of the tomb are adorned with raised and fielded panels.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Approximately 23 Metres to North West of West Door of Parish Church receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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