Chest Tomb at St Dyfnog's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 November 1999. Tomb.

Chest Tomb at St Dyfnog's Church

WRENN ID
solitary-loft-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 November 1999
Type
Tomb
Address
Chest Tomb at St Dyfnog's Church, Llanrhaeadr, Llanrhaeadr-Yng-Nghinmeirch
OS grid reference
SJ 081 633
Coordinates
53.15962, -3.37472
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The chest tomb at St Dyfnog's Church features a heavy tombslab supported by side piers and end panels, although the side panels have been removed. The tombslab is adorned with a raised strapwork border and includes a lengthy incised inscription that identifies it as belonging to John ap Robert of Porth, who died in 1642 at the age of 95. This inscription details sixteen generations of his lineage back to the king of Powys. Below the inscription, there is a raised shield motif with later incised initials HD. The ends of the tomb have paired arched niches, decorated with guilloche patterns on the central pier, while the sides and corners are embellished with applied fluted columns.

Local climate

Chest Tomb at St Dyfnog's Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 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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