Headstone of Elizabeth and Catherine Burton, 4 Metres to West of South Porch to Church of St Menefreda is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. Monument.
Headstone of Elizabeth and Catherine Burton, 4 Metres to West of South Porch to Church of St Menefreda
- WRENN ID
- hollow-cornice-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1987
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SW 964 770
- Coordinates
- 50.5579, -4.87504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The headstone of Elizabeth and Catherine Burton, dating from 1781, is located 4 meters to the west of the south porch of the Church of St. Menefreda. This slate headstone commemorates Elizabeth, the daughter of Bartholomew and Jane Burton, who died in 1781, and Catherine, the daughter of the same parents, who died in 1806. The headstone is rectangular with curved corners and features inscriptions in upper and lower case lettering with serifs.
Local climate
Headstone of Elizabeth and Catherine Burton, 4 Metres to West of South Porch to 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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