Harris Chest Tomb About 5 Metres South East of Porch of Church of St Olaf is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Chest tomb.
Harris Chest Tomb About 5 Metres South East of Porch of Church of St Olaf
- WRENN ID
- standing-chamber-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 222 077
- Coordinates
- 50.84181, -4.52608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Harris chest tomb, located about 5 metres southeast of the porch of the Church of St. Olaf, is a late 18th-century structure commemorating Abraham Harris of Hill, who died in 1769, and Burden-Abraham Harris, who died in 1787. It is a large rectangular brick chest topped with a freestone lid, which features an inscription of verse.
Local climate
Harris Chest Tomb About 5 Metres South East of Porch of Church of St Olaf sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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