Chest Tomb at Approx 5m North East of Tower of Church of Saint Kea is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb at Approx 5m North East of Tower of Church of Saint Kea
- WRENN ID
- sacred-terrace-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 844 417
- Coordinates
- 50.23591, -5.02424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from the late 18th century, is located approximately 5 meters northeast of the tower of the Church of Saint Kea. It features granite ashlar sides and a granite lid that has a cavetto cornice. The tomb is rectangular in shape. An inscription is likely present on the lid, but it is currently very overgrown and not easily readable.
Local climate
Chest Tomb at Approx 5m North East of Tower of Church of Saint Kea receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% 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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