Chest Tomb and Headstone at Approx 8m East of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. A Unknown Tomb.
Chest Tomb and Headstone at Approx 8m East of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea
- WRENN ID
- mired-iron-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- Period
- Unknown
- OS grid reference
- SW 810 426
- Coordinates
- 50.24328, -5.07239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb and headstone are located approximately 8 meters east of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea. The chest tomb, dated 1809, commemorates James Brown of Goodern, while the headstone, from 1830, is dedicated to Michael Dunstan by Pierce. The chest tomb is made of white limestone and features a rectangular shape with a moulded plinth, scalloped cornered fielded panels on the sides, and a bullnose moulded lid. The west side panel and lid have incised inscriptions that are difficult to read. The headstone has a steep and segmental arched top and includes an inscribed dedication to Michael Dunstan of Penwethers, who died in 1830 at the age of 97. The current church, built in 1896, replaced an earlier church from 1802 designed by James Wyatt, and the churchyard has been in use since then. Very few tomb monuments remain from the earlier church at Old Kea, making the modest 19th-century monuments in this churchyard historically significant for the parish.
Local climate
Chest Tomb and Headstone at Approx 8m East of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea 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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