Row of 7 Headstones and 4 Footstones from Approximately 17 to Approximately 25 Metres South of Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Headstones.
Row of 7 Headstones and 4 Footstones from Approximately 17 to Approximately 25 Metres South of Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- long-chapel-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Headstones
- OS grid reference
- TQ 192 579
- Coordinates
- 51.30835, -0.28992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of 7 monumental headstones and 4 footstones located approximately 17 to 25 metres south of the Church of St Giles. The headstones are aligned in a north-south direction, with a gap between the first and second stones, and date mostly from the mid-18th century. All are made of limestone and commemorate the following individuals from left to right:
- Mary Bovey (died 1746, possibly), featuring a shaped top with a carved skull-and-cross-bones.
- John Syms (died 1787), with a shaped top adorned with a fan and two four-line verses of doggerel.
- Alice Syms (died 1785), similar to the second stone and including verses, with a footstone at the rear inscribed "AS 1785".
- John Symes (died 1738), displaying a crude segmental pediment with consoles and a carved skull, accompanied by a matching footstone inscribed "JS 1738".
- Benjamin Symes (died 1742, aged 27), resembling the fourth stone but with a more emphatic design and a couplet reading "Young men of strength behold and see Just in my prime Death conquered me", with a matching footstone inscribed "BS 1742".
- Phebe Symes (died 1755), a large stone with an elaborately shaped top featuring scrolls and a skull-and-cross-bones.
- Mrs Mary Hunt (died 1747), similar to the sixth stone, with a footstone at the rear inscribed "MH 1747".
Local climate
Row of 7 Headstones and 4 Footstones from Approximately 17 to Approximately 25 Metres South of Church of St Giles sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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