Furneaux Tomb Immediately North of Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Tomb.
Furneaux Tomb Immediately North of Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- eternal-pilaster-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Furneaux Tomb Immediately North of Church of St Andrew, Paradise Road, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 463 550
- Coordinates
- 50.37502, -4.16263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Furneaux tomb, located immediately north of the Church of St Andrew, is a large tomb dating from the early to mid-19th century, dedicated to Captain Tobias Furneaux. It features a rubble side wall topped with dressed stone coping, which retains one side of a rectangular stone-paved area. The tomb has high rubble entrance walls on two sides, with wrought-iron railings on the other two sides. The railings have turned stanchions and finials. Captain Furneaux is noted for having sailed with Captain Cook on the first global navigation.
Local climate
Furneaux Tomb Immediately North of Church of St Andrew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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