Group of Three Chest Tombs at the Church of St Sadwrn is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 June 2000. Chest tomb.
Group of Three Chest Tombs at the Church of St Sadwrn
- WRENN ID
- errant-attic-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 June 2000
- Type
- Chest tomb
- Address
- Group of Three Chest Tombs at the Church of St Sadwrn, Henllan
- OS grid reference
- SJ 022 681
- Coordinates
- 53.2017, -3.46484
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a group of three 17th century chest tombs located at the Church of St Sadwrn. They are made of sandstone and feature heavy rectangular tombstones with Latin inscriptions. The outer tombstones have raised lettering. The tomb on the left is for Hugh Peake of Perthewig, who died in 1601. The central tomb is dedicated to William Vaughan, who died in 1661, and the tomb on the right belongs to Agnes Peake, the wife of Hugh of Perthewig, who died in 1618. All three tombs also have secondary inscriptions that were incised in the mid-18th century.
Local climate
Group of Three Chest Tombs at the Church of St Sadwrn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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