Pair of headstones 1 and 2 metres south of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Headstone.
Pair of headstones 1 and 2 metres south of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- far-banister-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- TR 242 574
- Coordinates
- 51.27221, 1.21317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of headstones located 1 and 2 metres south of the Church of St Mary in Wingham. One headstone commemorates Thomas Winter, who died in 1741, and stands about 3 feet high with an enriched double-headed top. The other headstone is for Edward Baker, who died in 1761, and features a scrolled double head adorned with cherubs, death's heads, and burial tools, measuring about 2 feet high.
Local climate
Pair of headstones 1 and 2 metres south 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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