Chest Tomb at About 27m North of Middle of Church of Saint 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 at About 27m North of Middle of Church of Saint Wenappa

WRENN ID
patient-facade-marsh
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 at About 27m North of Middle of Church of Saint Wenappa, Churchtown, Gwennap
OS grid reference
SW 738 401
Coordinates
50.21793, -5.17119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a chest tomb located about 27 meters north of the middle of the Church of Saint Wenappa in Gwennap. It dates from the early 19th century and features granite ashlar walls with a freestone lid. The tomb is rectangular in shape and oriented from west to east. The lid has a cavetto and torus moulding along the border and includes an incised inscription commemorating Agnes, the daughter of Collan and Agnes Bawden, who died in 1811 at the age of 4, as well as Collan Bawden, who died in 1816 at the age of 48. There are also two other names on the tomb that are indecipherable, but their dates are noted as 1807 and 1841.

Local climate

Chest Tomb at About 27m North of Middle of Church of Saint 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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