Group of Nine Headstones Approximately 5 Metres South East of the Porch of the Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1999. Group of headstones.
Group of Nine Headstones Approximately 5 Metres South East of the Porch of the Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- stony-trefoil-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1999
- Type
- Group of headstones
- OS grid reference
- SP 277 555
- Coordinates
- 52.19781, -1.59577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of nine headstones located approximately 5 meters southeast of the porch of the Church of St Peter in Wellesbourne. The headstones date from around 1700 to the 19th century and are made of ashlar stone.
The headstones are arranged in two rows. The row to the west features an inscription panel with an architrave and a broken pediment, flanked by pendants of flowers, and topped with a pulvinated frieze and a swan-neck pediment. There is a verse inscription on the back.
In the row to the east, there are two stones at the southern end. One has a broken top but displays good quality carving of flowers surrounding a worn cartouche. The other stone, dedicated to Mary and Hester Hopkins who died in 1704, features a well-preserved inscription within an architrave, flanked by pendants of flowers and a broken pediment, with a cherub and rosettes on top, and a verse inscription on the back. The group also includes six additional headstones from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Local climate
Group of Nine Headstones Approximately 5 Metres South East of the Porch of the Church of St Peter receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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