Gould Tomb Approximately 40 Metres South of Mission Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Tomb.
Gould Tomb Approximately 40 Metres South of Mission Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- gilded-wicket-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1993
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 821 452
- Coordinates
- 50.26651, -5.05759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gould tomb, located approximately 40 meters south of the Mission Church of St Mary, is a Grade II listed chest tomb commemorating John Gould, who died in 1823 at the age of 81. This tall, rectangular limestone chest tomb is set on a granite plinth. It features an inscribed oval plaque on one side, a moulded cornice, and a stylized urn on the lid, all within a dressed granite plinth that was once part of an iron fence.
Local climate
Gould Tomb Approximately 40 Metres South of Mission Church of St Mary receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 William Gould Monument to North of Chancel Church of St Laurence
- 2 Gould Monument in Churchyard, 6 Metres North of Chancel, Church of Blessed Virgin Mary
- 3 Gould Monument in the Churchyard About 3 Metres South of Chancel of Anglican Church of St Thomas À Becket
- 4 Golding chest tomb approximately 2 metres north of the vestry of the Church of St Mary
- 5 Chest Tomb Approximately 15 Metres South West of West End of Mission Church of St Mary
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