Chest Tomb at Approximately 5 Metres West of Church of St Cohan is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1985. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb at Approximately 5 Metres West of Church of St Cohan
- WRENN ID
- gentle-stair-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1985
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 862 447
- Coordinates
- 50.26382, -5.00087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from 1698, is located approximately 5 metres west of the Church of St Cohan. It features an undecipherable inscription and is made of granite. The tomb is rectangular in shape with dressed monolith ends, although the sides are missing. It has a tapered monolith lid that is adorned with a roll moulded border.
Local climate
Chest Tomb at Approximately 5 Metres West of Church of St Cohan receives an average of 890 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 85% 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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