Tombchest of Simon Wilcox 6 Metres to South of South Porch of Church of St Enodoc is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. Tombchest.
Tombchest of Simon Wilcox 6 Metres to South of South Porch of Church of St Enodoc
- WRENN ID
- tangled-hearth-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1987
- Type
- Tombchest
- OS grid reference
- SW 931 772
- Coordinates
- 50.55802, -4.92168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tombchest of Simon Wilcox, located 6 meters south of the south porch of the Church of St. Enodoc, dates from 1779. It commemorates Simon Wilcox, who died in 1779, his wife Jane, who died in 1766, and their daughter. The tombchest is made of stone rubble and has a rectangular shape topped with a slate lid. It features an inscription and verse in upper and lower case lettering with serifs.
Local climate
Tombchest of Simon Wilcox 6 Metres to South of South Porch of Church of St Enodoc sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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