Group of Three Headstones, Including One to William Hope, Approximately 20 Metres South of Church Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. Headstone.
Group of Three Headstones, Including One to William Hope, Approximately 20 Metres South of Church Tower
- WRENN ID
- errant-spire-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SU 531 859
- Coordinates
- 51.56948, -1.23482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This group of three headstones, located approximately 20 meters south of the church tower in Blewbury, includes one dedicated to William Hope and another to Sibilia Hope. The headstone for William Hope is dated 1683 and features a round-topped slab with the inscription: "Here lyeth interred the body of William Hope who departed this life the 4th Day of July anno domeny 1683 aged 90 years and 6 munthes." The headstone for Sibilia Hope, dated 1679, also has a round-topped slab and reads: "Here lyeth interred the body of Sibilla the wife of William Hope, who departed this life the 6th day of January anno domeny 1679 aged 81 years and 3 munthes." The third headstone, likely from the 17th century, features a scroll-topped slab with an illegible inscription, possibly in Greek.
Local climate
Group of Three Headstones, Including One to William Hope, Approximately 20 Metres South of Church Tower 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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