Headstone Approximately 18 Metres South of Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Headstone.
Headstone Approximately 18 Metres South of Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- rooted-rafter-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rugby
- Constituency
- Rugby MP: John Slinger (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1986
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SP 437 796
- Coordinates
- 52.41276, -1.3588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This headstone, located approximately 18 meters south of the Church of St. John the Baptist, dates back to 1779. It is made of slate and features low bas-relief decorations that depict the tools of the trade of Thomas Bolton of Combefields, a faggoter. The inscription reads: "This man his character to sum/from infancy was deaf and dumb/His understanding yet was clear/His heart was upright and sincere/He chiefly got his livelihood/By fagotry and felling wood/Till death the Conqueror of All/Gave the feller himself a fell."
Local climate
Headstone Approximately 18 Metres South of Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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