Basset Monument Approximately 15 Metres South-East of Tower of Former Church of St Illogan is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Basset Monument Approximately 15 Metres South-East of Tower of Former Church of St Illogan
- WRENN ID
- veiled-mullion-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SW 671 440
- Coordinates
- 50.25042, -5.26771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Basset monument, located approximately 15 metres south-east of the tower of the former Church of St Illogan, is a monumental sarcophagus commemorating John Pendarves Basset, who died in 1739. It is made of grey marble and features white marble tablets. The monument has four moulded feet, steeply angled sides and ends, a bolection-moulded top, and a lid with rounded ends and a moulded rim. The upper surface is humped and topped with a ball finial. At the north end, there is a cartouche, and large lettered panels are attached to the sides. The north panel is inscribed with "JOHN PENDARVES BASSET, died six of Sept. MDCCXXXIX, aged xxv years," followed by a lengthy epitaph that continues on the south side. The south panel has a crack near the bottom edge, and the lettering on both panels is heavily weathered.
Local climate
Basset Monument Approximately 15 Metres South-East of Tower of Former Church of St Illogan receives an average of 880 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 87% 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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