Pair of 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. A C17 Tomb.
Pair of Chest Tombs at the Church of St Saeran
- WRENN ID
- brooding-gravel-snow
- 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 Chest Tombs at the Church of St Saeran, Llanynys
- OS grid reference
- SJ 103 626
- Coordinates
- 53.15362, -3.34279
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The pair of late 17th century sandstone chest tombs is located at the Church of St Saeran. Each tomb features a stone with relief-carved guilloche edge decoration, resting on rectangular chests that have three-bay blind arcading on the sides and single shallow arched niches at the ends, adorned with grooved decoration.
The left tomb has an inscribed stone dedicated to Mathew Jones, steward to Sir William Williams, Bart., of Plas-y-Ward, who died in 1703. Below this primary inscription, it notes: 'Repaired by John Yale of Plas-yn-Yale and his heir 1767.'
The right tombstone is inscribed with the name of Elizabeth Evans, daughter of Thomas Evans of 'Skybion', who died in 1684, along with her sister Doulse Evans, who died in 1686. There is also a later inscription for Elin Roberts of Pant Glas, who died in 1745.
Local climate
Pair of 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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