Chest Tomb to Williams Family at 2 M North of Church of Saint Gerrans Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Tomb.
Chest Tomb to Williams Family at 2 M North of Church of Saint Gerrans Tower
- WRENN ID
- narrow-passage-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 872 351
- Coordinates
- 50.17839, -4.98096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb for the Williams family, located 2 meters north of the tower of the Church of Saint Gerrans, dates back to the earliest decipherable year of 1790. The lid features an inscription dedicated to Isaac Williams of Tregassa, crafted by Isbell of Truro. The tomb is made of white limestone and has a rectangular shape. It stands on a base of slatestone rubble, with a limestone slab that originally supported iron railings. Each side of the chest is adorned with a torus moulded plinth and reeded pilaster-like corner piers that flank fielded panels, some of which include inscriptions, along with a cavetto and torus moulded lid.
Local climate
Chest Tomb to Williams Family at 2 M North of Church of Saint Gerrans Tower 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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