Purdon Chest Tomb, 2 Metres East North East of Churchyard Cross, Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Chest tomb.
Purdon Chest Tomb, 2 Metres East North East of Churchyard Cross, Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- hollow-casement-storm
- 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 563 100
- Coordinates
- 50.88846, -2.62124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Purdon Chest Tomb, located 2 metres east-north-east of the churchyard cross at the Church of All Saints, is an 18th-century chest tomb made of Ham stone. It features a sunken base and flat sides, with two semi-circular arched recessed panels on the north side. The south side displays an incised double arch with a skull between, along with incised pilasters. The tomb is topped with a heavy hipped top. It commemorates Thomas Purdon, who died in 1714, and another individual whose name is unreadable, who died in 1774. There is also a crude representation of a bell in an arched panel on one side.
Local climate
Purdon Chest Tomb, 2 Metres East North East of Churchyard Cross, Church of All Saints 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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