Pair of Chest Tombs Approximately 6m North of Porch of St Winwaloe Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. A C18 Tomb.
Pair of Chest Tombs Approximately 6m North of Porch of St Winwaloe Church
- WRENN ID
- pale-corridor-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Tomb
- OS grid reference
- SX 748 383
- Coordinates
- 50.23208, -3.75574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of chest tombs located approximately 6 meters north of the porch of St. Winwaloe Church in East Portlemouth. They date from the later 18th century and feature squared and coursed rubble sides with a coved cornice and a slate lid. The corners of the tombs have projecting rubble pilasters. Only the tomb nearest to the church has a legible inscription, which commemorates Samuel Cornish, who died in 1772, and Catherine Cornish, who died in 1773.
Local climate
Pair of Chest Tombs Approximately 6m North of Porch of St Winwaloe Church 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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