Tombchest of Elizabeth and Harriet Wicke 25 Metres to West of Tower of Church of St Merteriana is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. A C19 Tombchest.
Tombchest of Elizabeth and Harriet Wicke 25 Metres to West of Tower of Church of St Merteriana
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-bracket-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- Tombchest
- OS grid reference
- SX 110 904
- Coordinates
- 50.68311, -4.67645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tombchest of Elizabeth and Harriet Wicke, located 25 meters to the west of the tower of the Church of St Merteriana, dates from 1804. It commemorates Elizabeth, the wife of James Wicke, who died in 1804, and their daughter Harriet, who died in 1795. The tombchest is made of slate stone rubble and features a rectangular slate lid. The lid is inscribed with upper and lower case lettering that includes serifs, a nowy-headed panel, and two angel heads.
Local climate
Tombchest of Elizabeth and Harriet Wicke 25 Metres to West of Tower of Church of St Merteriana sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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