Chest Tomb 2m North of North West Corner of Church of St Wenappa is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1986. Chest tomb.

Chest Tomb 2m North of North West Corner of Church of St Wenappa

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 February 1986
Type
Chest tomb
Address
Chest Tomb 2m North of North West Corner of Church of St Wenappa, Churchtown, Gwennap
OS grid reference
SW 738 401
Coordinates
50.21769, -5.17123
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This chest tomb, located 2 meters north of the northwest corner of the Church of St Wenappa in Gwennap, is likely from the 18th century. It was created for the Harris family by D Pearce of Truro. The tomb features granite ashlar sides and a slate lid, and it is rectangular in shape, oriented from west to east. The lid has a recessed panel that originally held inscriptions, all of which are in incised Roman lettering. The inscriptions commemorate John Harris, a gentleman who was baptized in 1652, married Alice Pelloe in 1677, and died in 1705; his son John Harris, who was baptized in 1678, married Elizabeth Beauchamp in 1703, and died in 1731; and Henry Harris, another son, who was baptized in 1730, married Agatha, the daughter of Robert and Alice Vivian of Rosewarne, and died in 1778, along with later inscriptions.

Local climate

Chest Tomb 2m North of North West Corner of Church of St Wenappa receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 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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