Duncan Tomb at Approximately 15 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Mawnan is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Tomb.
Duncan Tomb at Approximately 15 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Mawnan
- WRENN ID
- fallow-garret-marsh
- 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 787 272
- Coordinates
- 50.10404, -5.09529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Duncan tomb, located approximately 15 metres north of the tower of the Church of St Mawnan, is a chest tomb dating from the early 19th century. It commemorates Samuel Duncan, who died in 1839 at the age of 46, and his widow Judith Duncan, who passed away in 1855 at the age of 65. The tomb is made of dressed granite and is rectangular in shape. It features a chamfered base with two courses of brick above it. The lid of the tomb is a monolithic piece of granite that has an incised inscription.
Local climate
Duncan Tomb at Approximately 15 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Mawnan receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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