Chest Tomb of Twm O'r Nant at the Church of St Marcella is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 2000. Tomb.
Chest Tomb of Twm O'r Nant at the Church of St Marcella
- WRENN ID
- sunken-sentry-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 July 2000
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Chest Tomb of Twm O'r Nant at the Church of St Marcella, Whitchurch, Denbigh
- OS grid reference
- SJ 071 662
- Coordinates
- 53.18497, -3.39136
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The chest tomb of Twm O'r Nant is a rectangular structure made of polished slate. It features two-panel sides with fielded panels that have extruded corners, and single panel ends. The eastern end has a modern slate plaque attached, which bears the carved inscription: 'Bedd Twm O'r Nant'. The tomb-slab has chamfered sides and displays a primary carved inscription at the top that reads: 'Here lieth the body of Thomas Edwards of Nant, The Cambrian Shakespeare, with his wife and four of his daughters. Died April 3rd 1810 aged 71.' Below this, there are two later verses inscribed in Welsh.
Local climate
Chest Tomb of Twm O'r Nant at the Church of St Marcella 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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