Headstone, South of Porch at St Mary's Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1983. A C17 Monument. 1 related planning application.
Headstone, South of Porch at St Mary's Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- pitched-span-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1983
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Headstone, South of Porch at St Mary's Parish Church, Church Street, Buckden, PE19 5SH
- OS grid reference
- TL 192 676
- Coordinates
- 52.29392, -0.25262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The headstone located south of the porch at St. Mary's Parish Church is a 17th-century memorial dedicated to Mary, the daughter of Robert Norwood, dated 1680-81. It features an hourglass, a skull, cross-bones, and roses, and is similar to another headstone referenced in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments for Huntingdonshire, page 34.
Local climate
Headstone, South of Porch at St Mary's Parish Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Four headstones 13 metres south of chancel door of Church of St Mary.
- 2 Headstone Approximately 7 Metres South of South Porch of Church of St Mary
- 3 Headstone Approximately 35 Metres South West of Porch of Church of St Mary
- 4 Headstone Approximately 25 Metres South West of Porch of Church of St Mary
- 5 Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of East Corner of South Porch of Church of St Mary
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