Headstone at About 18m South of West End of Church of Saint Wenappa is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1986. Headstone.
Headstone at About 18m South of West End of Church of Saint Wenappa
- WRENN ID
- western-tallow-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1986
- Type
- Headstone
- Address
- Headstone at About 18m South of West End of Church of Saint Wenappa, Churchtown, Gwennap
- OS grid reference
- SW 738 400
- Coordinates
- 50.21743, -5.17118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The headstone located about 18 meters south of the west end of the Church of Saint Wenappa in Gwennap is a Grade II listed structure. This 18th-century headstone marks the grave of the Barrat family. It is made of slate and features a monolith slab with a canted head. The east side of the headstone is inscribed with incised lettering that commemorates John Barrat, who died in 1766 at the age of 55, his wife Hanna, who passed away in 1788 at the age of 61, and their daughter Ann, who died on November 12, 1761, at the age of 1 year and 8 months.
Local climate
Headstone at About 18m South of West End of Church of Saint Wenappa receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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