Group of four Chest Tombs in Churchyard to the south west of Church of St Oudoceus is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 February 2001. Chest tomb.
Group of four Chest Tombs in Churchyard to the south west of Church of St Oudoceus
- WRENN ID
- inner-gateway-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 February 2001
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SO 526 040
- Coordinates
- 51.73324, -2.68697
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a group of four sandstone chest tombs located in the churchyard to the southwest of the Church of St Oudoceus. Each tomb features scrolled corner balusters and slab tops with cyma recta mouldings. The tombs are inscribed with the following names and dates: Benjamin Lewis, who died in 1748; Anne, the wife of George Lewis, who died in 1749; Barbara Griffiths, who died in 1736; and Mary, the wife of Jon Holt, who died in 1789.
Local climate
Group of four Chest Tombs in Churchyard to the south west of Church of St Oudoceus receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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