Chest Tomb at Approximately 5 Metres South of Church of St Stedian is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Tomb.
Chest Tomb at Approximately 5 Metres South of Church of St Stedian
- WRENN ID
- open-hammer-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 731 371
- Coordinates
- 50.19054, -5.17998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from the 18th century, is located approximately 5 metres south of the Church of St Stedian in Stithians. It features dressed granite monolithic sides and a lid, and is rectangular in shape. The tomb has a chamfered plinth, and the sides are adorned with panels that have torus-moulded borders and hearts in relief. There is no visible inscription, but a plain panel at one end may have originally held an inscribed slate.
Local climate
Chest Tomb at Approximately 5 Metres South of Church of St Stedian receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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 0.3°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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