The Cunaide Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. Gravestone.
The Cunaide Memorial
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-column-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1988
- Type
- Gravestone
- Address
- The Cunaide Memorial, King George Vi Memorial Plantation, Hayle
- OS grid reference
- SW 556 371
- Coordinates
- 50.18397, -5.4242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cunaide Memorial is a gravestone dating from the 6th century, located in the King George VI Memorial Plantation in Hayle. It consists of an inscribed granite slab that has been reset with a 19th-century slate slab over it. The inscription has been deciphered to read: "HIC CENVI REQVIE VII CV NAT DO HIC TVMVLO IACIT VIXIT ANNOS XXXII." It is believed to commemorate a woman named Cunaide, or possibly her husband, and is recognized as the earliest Christian memorial known in Cornwall, according to the Hayle Town Trail by Brian Sullivan.
Local climate
The Cunaide Memorial receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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