Cory Family Chest-Tomb at Parish Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 July 1995. School.
Cory Family Chest-Tomb at Parish Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- noble-parapet-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1995
- Type
- School
- Address
- Cory Family Chest-Tomb at Parish Church of St Nicholas, St. Nicholas and Bonvilston
- OS grid reference
- ST 089 743
- Coordinates
- 51.46097, -3.31137
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Cory Family Chest-Tomb, located at the Parish Church of St Nicholas, is an early 20th-century tomb made of grey Quarella stone, designed in the High Gothic Revival style. It features trefoil-headed arcading on the sides, with five blind panels, the central panel displaying the Cory coat of arms and the inscription "Virtu Sempre Viridis." The capitals are adorned with stiff leaf foliage, while the spandrels feature stylised foliage and berries. A frieze of stylised Tudor roses and acanthus foliage runs along the tomb. The top is pitched and hipped, with moulded ribs. This tomb commemorates John Cory (1828-1910), his wife Anna Marie (1836-1909), and their children Clifford and Florence. It is surrounded by a chamfered curb.
Local climate
Cory Family Chest-Tomb at Parish Church of St Nicholas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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