Chest Tomb About 0.5 Metres East South East of Porch of Church of St Hermes is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Tomb.
Chest Tomb About 0.5 Metres East South East of Porch of Church of St Hermes
- WRENN ID
- spare-cobalt-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 891 702
- Coordinates
- 50.49425, -4.97387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located about 0.5 metres east-south-east of the porch of the Church of St Hermes, dates from the early 19th century. It is made of dressed slate and features a slate lid. The inscription on the top is nearly illegible but seems to commemorate Mary Brabyn, who died in 1819.
Local climate
Chest Tomb About 0.5 Metres East South East of Porch of Church of St Hermes sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% 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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