Cholwill Chest Tomb and 2 Other Chest Tombs About 5 Metres South East of the Church of St Morwenna is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Cholwill Chest Tomb and 2 Other Chest Tombs About 5 Metres South East of the Church of St Morwenna
- WRENN ID
- gilded-bonework-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 205 153
- Coordinates
- 50.9092, -4.55437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cholwill chest tomb and two other chest tombs are located about 5 metres southeast of the Church of St Morwenna. These tombs date from the late 18th century and are made of brick and freestone, with slate lids. The southernmost tomb in the group is brick and features an inscribed slate lid commemorating Thomas Cholwill, who died in 1757. The similar tomb to the northeast of the Cholwill tomb has an illegible inscription. The westernmost tomb is constructed from freestone ashlar and also has a slate lid, but its inscription is illegible.
Local climate
Cholwill Chest Tomb and 2 Other Chest Tombs About 5 Metres South East of the Church of St Morwenna sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% 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 0.3°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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