Pair of Heraldic Chest Tombs 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. Tomb.

Pair of Heraldic Chest Tombs at the Church of St Saeran

WRENN ID
gaunt-buttress-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 August 1999
Type
Tomb
Address
Pair of Heraldic Chest Tombs at the Church of St Saeran, Llanynys
OS grid reference
SJ 103 626
Coordinates
53.15341, -3.34266
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The pair of chest tombs located at the Church of St Saeran date from the late 17th century and are made of sandstone. Each tomb features a stone top with relief-carved guilloche edge decoration, resting on a rectangular chest that has three bays of blind arcading on the sides, with grooved decoration. The ends of the tombs have shallow round-arched niches with decorative spandrels and relief-carved heraldic shields on the eastern side, which display the arms of the Lloyd family.

The southernmost tomb has a Latin inscription on its western end dedicated to Elizabeth, the wife of S Lloyd, who passed away in 1690. The adjacent northern tomb is uninscribed but is believed to belong to her husband, S Lloyd, and is likely the earlier of the two. This northern tomb has various later inscriptions on its tombstone, with the earliest dating to 1756 and the latest to 1853. The southern tomb also features similar 18th and 19th-century secondary inscriptions.

Local climate

Pair of Heraldic Chest Tombs 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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