Pair of Chest Tombs to Blamy Family at 2 Metres South of South West Corner of Church of St Rumon is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1985. Monument.
Pair of Chest Tombs to Blamy Family at 2 Metres South of South West Corner of Church of St Rumon
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-pedestal-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SW 894 420
- Coordinates
- 50.24057, -4.9544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of chest tombs for the Blamy family, located 2 metres south of the southwest corner of the Church of St Rumon. One tomb, to the west, commemorates Nicholas Blamy, who died in 1811, and Sibbella Blamy, who died in 1807. The other tomb, to the east, is for Nicholas Blamy, who died in 1796, Mary Ann Behenna, who died in 1818, and Henry Behennah, who died in 1823. Both tombs feature brick side walls and have torus moulded white limestone outer borders on their lids, with inset inscribed slates between. They are rectangular in shape.
Local climate
Pair of Chest Tombs to Blamy Family at 2 Metres South of South West Corner of Church of St Rumon receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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