Chest Tomb at the Church of St Saeran is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 August 1999. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb at the Church of St Saeran
- WRENN ID
- muted-finial-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1999
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Address
- Chest Tomb at the Church of St Saeran, Llanynys
- OS grid reference
- SJ 103 626
- Coordinates
- 53.15347, -3.34244
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Chest Tomb at the Church of St Saeran is a rectangular sandstone structure featuring a moulded tombstone. It has three relief-carved roundels on each of the long sides and single roundels at each end. The central roundel on the north side displays a carved crown with crossed trumpets, while the corresponding roundel on the south side features a skull and cross-bones motif. The tombstone includes a memorial inscription dedicated to Elizabeth and John Simon, children of John Simon of Glan Clwyd, who passed away in 1730 and 1738, respectively.
Local climate
Chest Tomb at the Church of St Saeran receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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