Chubb Monument in the Churchyard About 3 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Mary and St Julian is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. A C18 Monument.
Chubb Monument in the Churchyard About 3 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Mary and St Julian
- WRENN ID
- wild-latch-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SX 446 519
- Coordinates
- 50.3473, -4.18528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chubb monument is a headstone located in the churchyard about 3 metres north of the tower of the Church of St. Mary and St. Julian. It dates from the 18th century and is made of slate. The headstone features a segmental top with rounded shoulders and a lined border. It includes verses that describe the death of John Chubb, who was 3 years and 9 months old when he died after swallowing a stone: "Harsh were the cries and every piercing groan/ Caus'd by the racking Torment of the Stone...". There is also a pebble carved in the slate, matching the size of the stone the child swallowed. Additionally, the monument has inscriptions commemorating two other infant deaths in the same family. John Chubb passed away in 1790.
Local climate
Chubb Monument in the Churchyard About 3 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Mary and St Julian sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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