Chest Tombs at Approximately 1 Metre East of Chancel of Church of St Breca is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. A C18 Chest tombs.
Chest Tombs at Approximately 1 Metre East of Chancel of Church of St Breca
- WRENN ID
- cold-timber-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Chest tombs
- OS grid reference
- SW 618 284
- Coordinates
- 50.10844, -5.33181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a group of three chest tombs located approximately 1 meter east of the chancel of the Church of St Breaca in Breage. These tombs date from the late 18th century or early 19th century. They are arranged closely together, with their sides parallel and oriented east-west. There are no decipherable inscriptions on any of the tombs.
The southernmost chest features coursed granite sides, a moulded granite lid, and a broken inscribed limestone slab on top. The middle chest has dressed granite slab sides and an inscribed slate slab set between them. The northern chest is a double tomb with dressed granite monolith sides and round-headed ends, which are connected by iron staples.
Local climate
Chest Tombs at Approximately 1 Metre East of Chancel of Church of St Breca receives an average of 880 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 87% 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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