Highmor Chest Tomb, 5 Metres West of West Door, Church of Saint Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Chest tomb.
Highmor Chest Tomb, 5 Metres West of West Door, Church of Saint Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- far-portal-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- ST 557 138
- Coordinates
- 50.92243, -2.63062
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highmor chest tomb, located 5 metres west of the west door of the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, dates from the late 17th century. It is made of Ham stone and features a raised base with a moulded plinth. Each face has one fielded panel, with coffered pilasters on the flanks, and a heavily moulded hipped top. The inscription is very worn, but a date on the south flank appears to read 1697, while the surname Highmor is discernible on the north flank.
Local climate
Highmor Chest Tomb, 5 Metres West of West Door, Church of Saint Mary Magdalene receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 64% 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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