Roskruge Headstones at Approximately 4 Metres South of Church of St Anthony is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Headstones.
Roskruge Headstones at Approximately 4 Metres South of Church of St Anthony
- WRENN ID
- woven-iron-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- Headstones
- OS grid reference
- SW 782 256
- Coordinates
- 50.08953, -5.10093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roskruge headstones, located approximately 4 meters south of the Church of St. Anthony, are two adjoining headstones dating from 1797 and 1800. Both are square-headed, incised slate monolith slabs. The left-hand stone is inscribed to Richard John Roskruge, who died in 1800 at the age of 30. The right-hand stone commemorates Richard Roskruge, who died in 1897 at the age of 66, with the inscription: "Killed when in the Execution of his Office as Surveyor of the Highways by a Blow on the Head."
Local climate
Roskruge Headstones at Approximately 4 Metres South of Church of St Anthony receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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