Row of 7 Headstones About 2 Metres East of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1987. Headstone row.
Row of 7 Headstones About 2 Metres East of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- pale-corridor-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1987
- Type
- Headstone row
- OS grid reference
- TR 350 502
- Coordinates
- 51.20272, 1.36332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of seven headstones located about 2 metres east of the Church of St Mary. The headstones include the following: Avery Child, who died in 1760, features cherub's head and death's head motifs; Elizabeth Stringer of Ripple Court from the mid-18th century, also decorated with cherub's heads; Stephen Stringer, who died in 1761, has a scrolled head with a cherub's head; Ann Stringer, who died in 1773, displays an acanthus enriched head with two cherubs' heads; Stephen Stringer, who died in 1780, is adorned with an urn and two cherubs in a floriate, scrolled head; John Stanley, who died in 1743, features two death's heads and palm fronds; and Stephen Sandy, who died in 1731, is decorated with a death's head, hourglass, and coffin.
Local climate
Row of 7 Headstones About 2 Metres East of Church of St Mary receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% 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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