Row of 4 Headstones 1 to 5 Metres South West of Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Headstones.
Row of 4 Headstones 1 to 5 Metres South West of Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- second-screen-heath
- 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
- Headstones
- OS grid reference
- TR 269 566
- Coordinates
- 51.26363, 1.25124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a group of four headstones located 1 to 5 metres southwest of the Church of St. James in Staple. The headstones commemorate the Woodward family. The first headstone is for Joana Woodward, who died in 1735, and stands about 3 feet high with a double head featuring two large and two small skulls. The second headstone is for William Woodward, who died in 1730, also about 3 feet high, with a double head, two skulls, and emblems of death. The third headstone is for Leonard Woodward, son of William and Joana, dating from the mid-18th century. It is about 3 feet high and has a scrolled pediment head with a winged cherub. The fourth headstone is for William Woodward, who died in 1771, measuring about 4 feet 6 inches high, with a floriated and scrolled head and a cherub in a sunburst design.
Local climate
Row of 4 Headstones 1 to 5 Metres South West of Church of St James sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% 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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