Group of 2 Headstones Approximately 6 Metres South East of South East Chancel, Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1988. Monument.
Group of 2 Headstones Approximately 6 Metres South East of South East Chancel, Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- half-buttress-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 932 896
- Coordinates
- 51.57299, 0.78701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a group of two headstones located approximately 6 metres southeast of the southeast corner of the chancel at the Church of All Saints in Barling Magna. Both headstones date from the 18th century and are made of stone. The taller northern headstone features a scrolled head, a central fluted urn, a cherub head, and symbols including a scythe and a skull and crossbones. It commemorates George Vassell, Gent, who died in 1773. The southern headstone also has a scrolled head and displays a skull and crossbones, with an inscription for Asser Vassell, Gent, who died in 1723.
Local climate
Group of 2 Headstones Approximately 6 Metres South East of South East Chancel, Church of All Saints receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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