Lanyon Chest Tomb at Approximately 5 Metres North of West End of Church of Saint Morvah is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Tomb.
Lanyon Chest Tomb at Approximately 5 Metres North of West End of Church of Saint Morvah
- WRENN ID
- fading-corridor-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 402 354
- Coordinates
- 50.16205, -5.63872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lanyon chest tomb, located approximately 5 metres north of the west end of the Church of Saint Morvah, is a chest tomb from the 18th century. It commemorates the wife of John Lanyon of Lanyon in the parish of Maddern, who was the daughter of Mathias Andrew and died in 1769 at the age of 61, as well as John Lanyon, who died in 1784 at the age of 92. The tomb is made of granite ashlar and features a moulded granite lid with an incised slate insert. It has a rectangular shape.
Local climate
Lanyon Chest Tomb at Approximately 5 Metres North of West End of Church of Saint Morvah sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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