Kipling Headstone 12 Metres West of St Michael's Churchyard Entry is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Grave marker.
Kipling Headstone 12 Metres West of St Michael's Churchyard Entry
- WRENN ID
- fallow-quoin-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Grave marker
- OS grid reference
- NZ 085 104
- Coordinates
- 54.48891, -1.87009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone from 1766 located 12 metres west of the entry to St. Michael's churchyard in Barningham Village. It is made of cut sandstone and features a swan-neck pedimented top that encloses the inscription "Memento mori." Above this, there is a dentil cornice over a sunk moulded panel that contains the main inscription dedicated to John Kipling.
Local climate
Kipling Headstone 12 Metres West of St Michael's Churchyard Entry receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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