Church of St Mary the Virgin Headstone Approximately 10 Metres East of East Window and South of Item 4/78 is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. A 18th century Church.
Church of St Mary the Virgin Headstone Approximately 10 Metres East of East Window and South of Item 4/78
- WRENN ID
- waning-plaster-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- TL 812 385
- Coordinates
- 52.01586, 0.63975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Gestingthorpe features head and foot stones located approximately 10 metres east of the east window. These stones date from around 1769 and are part of a pair. The headstone has a wave-curved top and includes a central moulded oval frame depicting a mourning woman dressed in widow's weeds, leaning on a Roman altar topped with a two-handled urn, set against a willow tree background. The frame is adorned with bay leaf ornamentation. The plain footstone is inscribed with "H.H. 1769."
Local climate
Church of St Mary the Virgin Headstone Approximately 10 Metres East of East Window and South of Item 4/78 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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