Wills Headstone at Approximately 4 Metres South of Church of St Laud is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Headstone.
Wills Headstone at Approximately 4 Metres South of Church of St Laud
- WRENN ID
- scarred-belfry-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1988
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SW 757 324
- Coordinates
- 50.14977, -5.14037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone located approximately 4 metres south of the Church of St Laud, dating from around 1840. It commemorates Thomas Wills, who died in 1840 at the age of 68, his wife Margaret Wills, who died in 1848 at the age of 69, and their daughter Elizabeth, who died in 1823 at the age of 17. The headstone is made of a granite monolithic slab with a shaped head and features an inset triangular-headed incised slate.
Local climate
Wills Headstone at Approximately 4 Metres South of Church of St Laud receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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