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. Chest tomb.

Chest Tomb at Approx 25m South West of Church of Saint Mylor

WRENN ID
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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 819 352
Coordinates
50.17685, -5.05471
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This chest tomb, located approximately 25 meters southwest of the Church of Saint Mylor, was erected in 1862 for Edward Hoblyn and his family. It is constructed from dressed marble freestone and slate and has a square plan. The tomb features a foundation base with a double panelled 'dado' plinth that includes two wide fielded panels with concave corners on each side. Above this, there are tall plain panels with attached wall monuments on the east and north sides, topped with a plain slate slab lid. The north monument includes a round medallion with a ramped base and a moulded scrolled cornice, which bears an incised inscription for Edward Hoblyn, who died in 1868 at the age of 85, and his wife Mary Hoblyn, who died in 1862 at the age of 79. The east side has a pair of headstone monuments with shaped heads and incised inscriptions for other family members.

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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