Two Rows of 3 and 5 Headstones About 5 to 15 Metres South of Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Headstones.
Two Rows of 3 and 5 Headstones About 5 to 15 Metres South of Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- calm-trefoil-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Headstones
- OS grid reference
- TR 052 393
- Coordinates
- 51.11666, 0.93118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two rows of headstones located about 5 to 15 metres south of the Church of St. John. The first row contains three headstones, each approximately 2 feet high, featuring scrolled and shaped heads. The first headstone displays trumpets and a cherub head, the second has a skull in profile over crossed bones, and the third is dedicated to Elizabeth Hann, who died in 1729, featuring a winged cherub above a raised and fielded panel.
The second row consists of five headstones, each about 2½ feet high. The northernmost is a double headstone with scrolled shoulders and a double cornice, separated by a small relief death's head that incorporates a motif of a winged hourglass and another death's head. The adjacent stone is around 3 feet high, also with a scrolled shaped head and a skull in profile over bones. Next to it are two similar stones featuring Rocaille scrolled heads; one has a motif of an open book within a heart above a round-headed inscription panel, while the other has an indented rectangular panel. The fifth stone is dedicated to John Home, who died in 1749, and features scrolled shoulders leading to a pediment-shaped cornice with a cherub in a sunburst design.
Local climate
Two Rows of 3 and 5 Headstones About 5 to 15 Metres South of Church of St John sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
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