Pair of Headstones Approximately 5 Metres South of Porch of Church of St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 2000. Headstone.
Pair of Headstones Approximately 5 Metres South of Porch of Church of St Edmund
- WRENN ID
- bitter-pediment-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2000
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- TM 507 763
- Coordinates
- 52.32807, 1.67862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of headstones located approximately 5 metres south of the porch of the Church of St Edmund in Southwold. They date from the early 18th century and are simple rectangular monuments with a shaped head. One headstone is inscribed to Susan Simon, who died in 1713, while the other commemorates Lyell Church, featuring a carved hourglass and cross bones above the inscription.
Local climate
Pair of Headstones Approximately 5 Metres South of Porch of Church of St Edmund receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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