Nicholl family tomb in churchyard of St Teilo, Merthyr Mawr is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1999. Tomb.
Nicholl family tomb in churchyard of St Teilo, Merthyr Mawr
- WRENN ID
- blind-thatch-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1999
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 883 775
- Coordinates
- 51.48546, -3.6099
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Nicholl family tomb is a stone table tomb located in the churchyard of St Teilo in Merthyr Mawr. It features a flat capstone, and the angles are adorned with pilasters that have husks below four-leaf flowers. On the short sides, there are oval tablets displaying the Nicholl family crest, which consists of a castle topped by a Cornish chough, along with heraldic pheons on the upper right and left. The eastern side of the tomb has raised lettering that commemorates the family of the Right Honorable Sir John Nicholl. The long sides of the tomb have wide oval tablets that are currently left blank, intended for future commemorative inscriptions, and are decorated with foliage on the upper right and left.
Local climate
Nicholl family tomb in churchyard of St Teilo, Merthyr Mawr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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