Skull Topped Headstone Approximately 15 Metres North of Tower Buttress of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. Monument.
Skull Topped Headstone Approximately 15 Metres North of Tower Buttress of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- endless-rafter-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1985
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SU 608 862
- Coordinates
- 51.57161, -1.12287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-17th century headstone located approximately 15 meters north of the tower buttress of the Church of St. Mary in North Stoke. It is made of stone and features a shaped top with a skull at the center. Below the skull, there is a shaped panel that contains an inscription.
Local climate
Skull Topped Headstone Approximately 15 Metres North of Tower Buttress of Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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