Child's Chest Tomb at 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.

Child's Chest Tomb at Church of St Saeran

WRENN ID
vast-glass-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 August 1999
Type
Tomb
Address
Child's Chest Tomb at Church of St Saeran, Llanynys
OS grid reference
SJ 103 626
Coordinates
53.15341, -3.34253
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Child's Chest Tomb at the Church of St Saeran is a small rectangular tomb made of sandstone. It features a tombstone with a relief-carved guilloche border. Each side of the tomb has two round-arched shallow niches, which have grooved decoration in the spandrels, while the ends have single-arched niches. The tombstone includes a memorial inscription dedicated to Martha, the daughter of Charles Lloyd of Cwm Meyin in Flintshire, who was born in April 1695 and died in March 1697.

Local climate

Child's Chest Tomb at 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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