Skues Tomb at Approximately 2 Metres South of Church of St Mawnan is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Tomb.
Skues Tomb at Approximately 2 Metres South of Church of St Mawnan
- WRENN ID
- noble-solder-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 787 272
- Coordinates
- 50.10381, -5.09511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Skues tomb, located approximately 2 metres south of the Church of St Mawnan, is an early 19th-century chest tomb. It commemorates Grace, daughter of H and W Noye of Falmouth and wife of Richard Skues of Helston, who died in 1821 at the age of 20. The tomb is made of dressed granite and features an inscribed slate inset on the limestone lid. It has a rectangular plan with a plinth, ashlar sides, and a stepped lid. The lower tier of the lid is sloping, while the upper tier has dressed granite sides and a moulded limestone lid.
Local climate
Skues Tomb at Approximately 2 Metres South of Church of St Mawnan receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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