Chest Tomb at Approx 25m South West of Church of Saint Mylor is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Tomb.
Chest Tomb at Approx 25m South West of Church of Saint Mylor
- WRENN ID
- hollow-gateway-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 820 352
- Coordinates
- 50.17678, -5.05454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located approximately 25 meters southwest of the Church of Saint Mylor, dates from the early 19th century. It features dressed granite monolith sides that are chamfered at the top, with a course of bricks above, supporting an inscribed granite lid that has a torus moulded border. The tomb is rectangular in shape. The lid bears an incised inscription commemorating Philippa Bull, who died in 1806 at the age of 26, and Kitty Powell, the daughter of John and Philippa, who died in 1810 at the age of 4.
Local climate
Chest Tomb at Approx 25m South West of Church of Saint Mylor receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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