Chest Tomb to Alford Family at About 15m South of Church of Saint Wenappa is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1986. Chest tomb.

Chest Tomb to Alford Family at About 15m South of Church of Saint Wenappa

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 February 1986
Type
Chest tomb
Address
Chest Tomb to Alford Family at About 15m South of Church of Saint Wenappa, Churchtown, Gwennap
OS grid reference
SW 738 400
Coordinates
50.21744, -5.17093
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This chest tomb, located about 15 meters south of the Church of Saint Wenappa, dates from the early 19th century and is dedicated to the Alford family. It features granite ashlar sides and a slate lid set within a granite border. The tomb is rectangular in shape and oriented roughly from west to east. The projecting lid has a cavetto and bullnose border. The slate slab includes incised lettering with inscriptions for John Alford, who died in 1828 at the age of 72; Elizabeth, the wife of John Alford, who died in 1811 at the age of 72; and Elizabeth Bawden along with Richard Harvey Bawden, who died in 1879 at the age of 79.

Local climate

Chest Tomb to Alford Family at About 15m South of Church of Saint Wenappa receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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 0.3°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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