Symons Chest Tomb Immediately to the North of the Pearse Memorials is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Chest tomb.

Symons Chest Tomb Immediately to the North of the Pearse Memorials

WRENN ID
scattered-rotunda-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Type
Chest tomb
OS grid reference
SX 202 994
Coordinates
50.76667, -4.55051
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Symons chest tomb, located immediately to the north of the Pearse memorials, is an early 19th-century structure made of brick and slate. It is a low, coffin-shaped chest with an inscribed slate lid that resembles the nearby Pearse memorials. This half-size chest commemorates Tuomazin Stacey Symons, who died in 1838. It forms a group with the Pearse memorials.

Local climate

Symons Chest Tomb Immediately to the North of the Pearse Memorials sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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