Chest Tomb at Approx 15m South East 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. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb at Approx 15m South East of Church of Saint Mylor
- WRENN ID
- steep-quartz-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 820 352
- Coordinates
- 50.17692, -5.05392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, located approximately 15 meters southeast of the Church of Saint Mylor, dates from 1793 and commemorates George Wauchope, who died at the age of 60. It features granite ashlar sides and a granite lid with a moulded border that frames a slate insert. The slate insert has an incised inscription and a moulded border. The tomb is rectangular in shape. The epitaph reads: "Let his errors rest in peace, his excellence deserve admiration; let me with the wife admire his Wisdom; let the Envious and the Ignorant ridicule his foibles, the folly of others is ever more ridiculous to those who are themselves more Foolish."
Local climate
Chest Tomb at Approx 15m South East 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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