Group of 4 Headstones Thomas Vercoe, Edward Vercoe, Joan Tretheway and Mary Brown 6 Metres to South of South Aisle of Church of St Menefreda is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. Headstones.
Group of 4 Headstones Thomas Vercoe, Edward Vercoe, Joan Tretheway and Mary Brown 6 Metres to South of South Aisle of Church of St Menefreda
- WRENN ID
- grey-lancet-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1987
- Type
- Headstones
- OS grid reference
- SW 964 770
- Coordinates
- 50.55785, -4.87473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This group of four headstones is located 6 metres south of the south aisle of the Church of St. Menefreda. The headstones date from 1750, 1776, 1781, and 1807. The northernmost headstone commemorates Thomas, son of Edward and Mary Vercoe, who died in 1781. It is a rectangular slate headstone with high-quality lettering. Next is the headstone of Edward Vercoe, who died in 1750, featuring a tall, narrow rectangular shape with a nowy head and fine-quality lettering. To the east of this is a small rectangular slate headstone for Joan Trethewey, who died in 1807. Finally, to the south is the headstone of Mary, wife of John Brown, who died in 1776, also a rectangular slate headstone. All headstones are inscribed with upper and lower case lettering that includes serifs.
Local climate
Group of 4 Headstones Thomas Vercoe, Edward Vercoe, Joan Tretheway and Mary Brown 6 Metres to South of South Aisle of Church of St Menefreda sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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