Chest Tomb Adjoining North Wall of Church of St Laud is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Tomb.
Chest Tomb Adjoining North Wall of Church of St Laud
- WRENN ID
- gentle-baluster-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 757 324
- Coordinates
- 50.14991, -5.1405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century chest tomb located against the north wall of the Church of St Laud. The tomb features a slate lid, while the rest of the structure is buried. The inscription around the perimeter of the rectangular lid is currently too overgrown with moss to be legible.
Local climate
Chest Tomb Adjoining North Wall of Church of St Laud 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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