Chest Tomb to Oxenberry Family at 7 Metres North of Church of Saint Gerrans Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Chest tomb.
Chest Tomb to Oxenberry Family at 7 Metres North of Church of Saint Gerrans Tower
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-shingle-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Chest tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 872 351
- Coordinates
- 50.17844, -4.98096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb to the Oxenberry family, located 7 meters north of the Church of Saint Gerrans tower, dates back to 1759. It features a lid inscription dedicated to Elizabeth and John Eddy Oxenberry. The tomb is made of white limestone and has a rectangular shape. It stands on a base of slatestone rubble with slate slabs. Each side of the chest is adorned with a plinth and pilaster-like corner piers that flank panels with scalloped corners, topped by a lid that has cavetto and torus moulding.
Local climate
Chest Tomb to Oxenberry Family at 7 Metres North of Church of Saint Gerrans Tower receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow 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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