Hooper Chest Tomb About 8 Metres South East of the Chancel of the Church of St Morwenna is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Chest tomb.
Hooper Chest Tomb About 8 Metres South East of the Chancel of the Church of St Morwenna
- WRENN ID
- haunted-glass-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SS 205 153
- Coordinates
- 50.90921, -4.55423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hooper chest tomb, located about 8 metres southeast of the chancel of the church of St Morwenna, is an early 18th-century brick chest tomb. It features an inscribed slate lid that commemorates John Hooper, who was buried in 1739, along with other members of the Hooper family. The lid is adorned with a winged skull and flowers carved above the inscription, with a verse located below the inscription.
Local climate
Hooper Chest Tomb About 8 Metres South East of the Chancel 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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