Mercer Chest Tomb About 1 Metre South of West Tower of Church of St Olaf is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Mercer Chest Tomb About 1 Metre South of West Tower of Church of St Olaf
- WRENN ID
- sharp-hall-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 222 077
- Coordinates
- 50.84186, -4.52628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mercer chest tomb, located about 1 metre south of the west tower of the Church of St Olaf, is an early 18th-century structure commemorating Saul Cornish Mercer, who died in 1738. It features a brick chest with a chamfered brick plinth and an inscribed slate lid.
Local climate
Mercer Chest Tomb About 1 Metre South of West Tower of Church of St Olaf sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Chest Tomb About 2 Metres North East of Church of St Olaf
- 2 Jose Chest Tomb About 1 Metre West of South Aisle of Church of St Olaf
- 3 Chest Tomb About 3 Metres South West of the Church of St Olaf
- 4 Chest Tomb Approximately 3 Metres South of Church of All Saints
- 5 Chest tomb immediately west of the porch of the Church of St Michael and All Angels
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings