Trereife Vault North East of Church of St Maddern is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Sarcophagus.
Trereife Vault North East of Church of St Maddern
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-timber-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Sarcophagus
- Address
- Trereife Vault North East of Church of St Maddern, Madron
- OS grid reference
- SW 453 318
- Coordinates
- 50.13197, -5.56427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Trereife vault, located northeast of the Church of St Maddern, is a sarcophagus chest over a vault, dating from the early 19th century. It is associated with the Trereife family. The sarcophagus is made of dressed granite and features ball feet, tapered sides, roll-moulded upper and lower edges, and a pyramidal lid. It has a rectangular plan and is set on a stepped granite base.
Local climate
Trereife Vault North East of Church of St Maddern sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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