2 Chest Tombs to the Miners Family Ten Yards South of Ladock Church Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. Chest tombs.
2 Chest Tombs to the Miners Family Ten Yards South of Ladock Church Tower
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-portal-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1984
- Type
- Chest tombs
- Address
- 2 Chest Tombs to the Miners Family Ten Yards South of Ladock Church Tower, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- SW 894 509
- Coordinates
- 50.32099, -4.95932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two chest tombs located ten yards south of the tower of Ladock Church. The south tomb commemorates Mary Miners, who died in 1778, and John Miners, who died in 1815. The north tomb is for William Miners, who died in 1813, and Elizabeth Miners, who died in 1832. Both tombs have a rectangular shape and feature granite plinths with cavetto reversa moulding. The sides are made of granite ashlar in three courses, and they have a cavetto moulded cornice beneath flat granite lids. The lids include inset slate slabs that are incised with English lettering.
Local climate
2 Chest Tombs to the Miners Family Ten Yards South of Ladock Church Tower receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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