Chest Tomb, 1 Metre to South of South Aisle of St Winnow Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Tomb.
Chest Tomb, 1 Metre to South of South Aisle of St Winnow Church
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-slate-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 115 569
- Coordinates
- 50.38229, -4.65217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from the 17th century, is located 1 metre to the south of the south aisle of St Winnow Church. It features a slate headstone inscribed with serif lettering that commemorates Edmund Stephens, a yeoman, and his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1717, along with their children Richard, who passed away in 1765. The tomb itself is made of granite and has a rectangular shape with a wave-moulded top.
Local climate
Chest Tomb, 1 Metre to South of South Aisle of St Winnow Church 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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 0.2°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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