Chest Tomb to Blund Family 6 Metres South of St Clement Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb to Blund Family 6 Metres South of St Clement Church
- WRENN ID
- guardian-corridor-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1984
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 850 438
- Coordinates
- 50.25556, -5.0167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb to the Blund family, located 6 metres south of St Clement Church, dates from 1771, 1784, and 1831. It is made of granite and slate and has a rectangular plan. The tomb features a plinth with roll moulding, plain sides with roll moulding at the corners, and roll and cyma recta moulding along the cornice. It is topped with a rectangular slate slab and a granite lid that has an inscribed slate inset. The tomb includes an interesting epitaph for Catharinah, niece of John Bland, dated 1784, which reads: "Beneath this tomb there lies confined a Maid that bore a villous mind in her 20th Year returned to dust to make her Portion with the just."
Local climate
Chest Tomb to Blund Family 6 Metres South of St Clement Church receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% 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 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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