Chest Tomb at 3 Metres East of East End of Church of St Symphorian is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1985. Tomb.
Chest Tomb at 3 Metres East of East End of Church of St Symphorian
- WRENN ID
- little-cellar-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 917 395
- Coordinates
- 50.21951, -4.92128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located 3 metres east of the east end of the Church of St Symphorian, dates from around 1847. It features slatestone walls topped with a plain, uninscribed slate lid. The tomb is square in shape, and the north side includes reused stone fragments that form a blocked doorway. Supporting the hollow chamfered granite arch stone or coping stone are moulded freestone capitals, likely taken from gate piers dating to around 1700. Inside the doorway, there is a granite gable finial adorned with three circles, which resembles a similar design found on a village well. Both the finial and the doorway fragments are likely Medieval pieces that were removed from the church during its restoration in 1847.
Local climate
Chest Tomb at 3 Metres East of East End of Church of St Symphorian receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% 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 0.2°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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