Group of 4 chest tombs within railed enclosure to SW of church of St Meugan is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Tomb.
Group of 4 chest tombs within railed enclosure to SW of church of St Meugan
- WRENN ID
- hollow-clay-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1998
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Group of 4 chest tombs within railed enclosure to SW of church of St Meugan, Llanfeugan, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 086 245
- Coordinates
- 51.91169, -3.3294
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a group of four chest tombs located within a railed enclosure to the southwest of the church of St Meugan. The tombs are closely set and very similar in design, featuring tooled slabs, rusticated tooled stone chests, and battered tooled plinths. The rectangular enclosure is surrounded by spear railings with urned stanchions on a tooled stone plinth.
Local climate
Group of 4 chest tombs within railed enclosure to SW of church of St Meugan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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