Group of 4 Headstones Approximately 5 Metres West of Church of St. Mary is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Headstones.
Group of 4 Headstones Approximately 5 Metres West of Church of St. Mary
- WRENN ID
- high-plinth-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Headstones
- OS grid reference
- NZ 130 206
- Coordinates
- 54.58068, -1.79916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This group of four headstones is located approximately 5 metres west of the Church of St. Mary in Staindrop. They date from the early 18th century to the late 18th century, with inscriptions commemorating Ralph Lawson (circa 1702), William Awde (1748), Ralph Sidgwick (1768), and William Wheatley (1778). The headstones are made of sandstone ashlar, with Sidgwick and Wheatley facing east, while Lawson and Awde face west, backing onto them.
The Sidgwick headstone, located at the southeast of the group, is about 0.9 metres high and features a moulded design with a pediment and a deeply-cut inscription. The Wheatley headstone, at the northeast, stands approximately 1 metre high and has a bracketed scrolled top, with scrolls connected by swags on a tooled background, along with a well-cut inscription and verse on the rear.
The Awde headstone, positioned at the southwest, has a shaped top and is around 0.7 metres high, framed by a moulded surround. The headstone for Ralph Lawson is scroll-topped and about 0.5 metres high, featuring ogee-patterned edge moulding and a low-relief face between top spirals, with the years 17 and 02 on either side. Its large-lettered inscription, which is partly obscured by vegetation, continues up the sides and on the rear. All four headstones commemorate other family members as well.
Local climate
Group of 4 Headstones Approximately 5 Metres West of Church of St. Mary receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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