Armstrong Headstone 7.0 Metres South-East of Church of the Holy Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Headstone.
Armstrong Headstone 7.0 Metres South-East of Church of the Holy Cross
- WRENN ID
- blind-brick-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- NY 707 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97001, -2.45794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The headstone for George Armstrong, who died in 1783, is located 7.0 metres southeast of the Church of the Holy Cross in Haltwhistle. It is made of sandstone and features a scrolled top with a raised cyma-moulded border that has bead moulding. The headstone includes relief carvings of an angel head with feathered wings, which are partly enclosed by a festoon and flanked by a Book of Life and an hour-glass. The slightly-convex oval panel has a raised enriched border and is inscribed with the names of George Armstrong and his wife. The reverse side bears an inscription that reads:
"Step softly ye Friends on hallowed ground ye tread, Lest ye disturb the Mansion of the Dead. A tender Parent rests in peaceful dust His manners gentle and his actions Just, Esteemed by all he liv'd, by all approved And dy'd lamented, as he liv'd beloved."
Local climate
Armstrong Headstone 7.0 Metres South-East of Church of the Holy Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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