Appleton Tombstone Circa 10 Metres South of Church of St Helen is a Grade II listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1988. Tombstone.
Appleton Tombstone Circa 10 Metres South of Church of St Helen
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lancet-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Constituency
- Redcar MP: Anna Turley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1988
- Type
- Tombstone
- OS grid reference
- NZ 547 187
- Coordinates
- 54.5612, -1.15419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Appleton tombstone, located approximately 10 metres south of the Church of St. Helen, is a Grade II listed structure. It commemorates two members of the Appleton family who died in 1774. This tall sandstone slab features a nowy-headed cartouche on its east face, which bears an epitaph. Below the cartouche, there are carved hour glasses at the angles. The design includes ribbons above and below an egg-and-dart-moulded head, with inscriptions that read: "Live mindful - of Death" and "One Night that is the Grave wants for all men." The epitaph itself states:
"Farewell vain World know enough of thee. And now am careless what thou sayst of me. Thy smiles I court not nor thy Frowns I fear, My cares are past, my Head lies quiet here. What faults you saw in me, take care to shun. And look at Home enough there's to be done."
Local climate
Appleton Tombstone Circa 10 Metres South of Church of St Helen receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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