Group of five headstones 5 metres south of Church of St. Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. A C17 Headstone group.
Group of five headstones 5 metres south of Church of St. Peter
- WRENN ID
- tattered-turret-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Headstone group
- OS grid reference
- SK 736 542
- Coordinates
- 53.08043, -0.90172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of five headstones, dating from 1683 and 1684, is located 5 metres south of the Church of St. Peter in Upton. These headstones are made of ashlar and feature chamfered tops. The inscriptions on the headstones are as follows:
- "John Holms Yemon was buried the 24 day of March Anno Domini 1683"
- "Robert Holmes his eldest son was buried the 12 day of March Anno Domini 1683"
- "Richard Holmes the youngest son was buried the 24 day of March Anno Domini 1683"
- "Hellen Holmes Widdow late wife of the aforesaid John Holmes was buried April the 16 Anno Domini 1684"
- "John Holmes her son was buried the first day of May Anno Domini 1684".
Local climate
Group of five headstones 5 metres south of Church of St. Peter sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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