Chest Tomb at Approximately 21 Metres South of Church of Saint Felix is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Tomb.
Chest Tomb at Approximately 21 Metres South of Church of Saint Felix
- WRENN ID
- frozen-forge-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SW 871 394
- Coordinates
- 50.21651, -4.98543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This chest tomb, dating from 1687, is located approximately 21 metres south of the Church of Saint Felix. It commemorates Walter Penhallow, Gentleman. The tomb features an inscribed slate slab resting on a rubble base and has a rectangular shape. One end of the top displays a scrolled design with trailing roses, and there is a scrolled border around the lid, which is cracked in several places.
Local climate
Chest Tomb at Approximately 21 Metres South of Church of Saint Felix 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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