James Chest Tomb at Approx 10m South of Tower of Church of St Maugan is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Chest tomb.
James Chest Tomb at Approx 10m South of Tower of Church of St Maugan
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pewter-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 709 250
- Coordinates
- 50.0816, -5.20315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb, located approximately 10 meters south of the tower of the Church of St Maugan, dates from the early 19th century. It features dressed granite monolith sides with an incised slate monolith slab insert, and is rectangular in shape. The tomb bears inscriptions for Eleanor James, daughter of William and Elizabeth James of Lemarth, who died in 1825 at the age of 24, along with an epitaph that reads:
"Swiftly our moments haste away
With ev'ry heaving breath
And swiftly hastens on the day
When we must sink in death"
It also commemorates Joseph Harriet Ruberry, who died on December 9, 1840, at the age of 4 years and 4 months.
Local climate
James Chest Tomb at Approx 10m South of Tower of Church of St Maugan receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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