Dobuz Tomb Approximately 1 Metre West of West End of Mission Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Tomb.
Dobuz Tomb Approximately 1 Metre West of West End of Mission Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- long-cloister-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1993
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 821 452
- Coordinates
- 50.26713, -5.05784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dobuz tomb, located approximately 1 meter west of the west end of the Mission Church of St Mary, is a chest tomb dating from 1802. It commemorates John Theopilus Dobuz, the second son of Lewis Charles and Wilmot Dobuz, who died on 11 October at the age of 4. The tomb is square in plan and constructed from tall dressed granite. It features inscribed oval marble panels on two sides, all set within a granite ashlar plinth that once supported an iron fence. The design includes a moulded base and a moulded cornice that is broken out over corner pilasters.
Local climate
Dobuz Tomb Approximately 1 Metre West of West End of Mission Church of St Mary receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 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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