Watts and English Headstone 8 Metres South of St Cuthbert's Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Headstone.
Watts and English Headstone 8 Metres South of St Cuthbert's Church Hall
- WRENN ID
- waiting-pewter-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- NZ 318 814
- Coordinates
- 55.12682, -1.50243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watts and English headstones, located 8 metres south of St. Cuthbert's Church Hall, date from the 18th and early 19th centuries and are made of sandstone. The southern headstone features a relief-carved panel that includes an anchor with an arrow and scythe, surrounded by a cable-moulded border and flanked by sailing ships on billows, along with the heads of drowning persons. The inscription commemorates William Watts of South Blyth, a pilot who drowned on January 14, 1805, along with three other pilots while performing his duties. It expresses his family's grief and includes a poignant message about finding peace in the afterlife. The northern headstone has a shaped top adorned with carvings of a rustic cherub above a book and hourglass, and it is inscribed to Jane, the daughter of Thomas English, a surgeon, dating to around 1764. The right edge of this stone is damaged, but it is included for its group value.
Local climate
Watts and English Headstone 8 Metres South of St Cuthbert's Church Hall receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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