Glencross Tomb Approximately 15 Metres South of Church of St Martin is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1993. Grave monument.
Glencross Tomb Approximately 15 Metres South of Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- swift-gable-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1993
- Type
- Grave monument
- OS grid reference
- SX 254 643
- Coordinates
- 50.45315, -4.46081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Glencross tomb, located approximately 15 metres south of the Church of St Martin in Liskeard, is a chest tomb and grave slab dating from 1826. It commemorates Mary, the widow of John Glencross, who died at the age of 81; William Glencross, who died in 185- at the age of 67; his widow Thomasine Margaret, who died in 1855 at the age of 72; Revd James Glencross, a Clerk, MA, and JP for Cornwall, who died in 1896 at the age of 80; his wife, Ann Armenell, who died in 1917 at the age of 92; and others. The tomb features tapered coursed rubble sides over a granite plinth, an incised granite lid, and an incised granite slab on the east side, all set within a granite plinth that once supported an iron fence. The tomb has a rectangular plan.
Local climate
Glencross Tomb Approximately 15 Metres South of Church of St Martin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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