Pair of Elmy Headstones About 5 Metres North of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. A Georgian Headstone.
Pair of Elmy Headstones About 5 Metres North of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- hollow-zinc-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- Headstone
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- TM 041 746
- Coordinates
- 52.33151, 0.99405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of Elmy headstones, located about 5 meters north of the Church of St Mary, commemorates members of the Elmy family who died in 1743 and 1748. Made of ashlar, the headstones feature richly scrolled cambered tops above their inscriptions. One headstone is adorned with a trumpeting putto, while the other displays two seraphim.
Local climate
Pair of Elmy Headstones About 5 Metres North of Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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