Giles and Kingdom Headstones 10 Metres South of Church of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1993. Headstone.
Giles and Kingdom Headstones 10 Metres South of Church of St Stephen
- WRENN ID
- tall-arch-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1993
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 324 856
- Coordinates
- 50.64665, -4.37084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two headstones located 10 meters south of the Church of St Stephen in Launceston date from the 18th century. One is for Francis Giles, who died in 1729 at the age of 69, and the other is for Anne, the wife of Thomas Kingdom, who died in 1767 at the age of 30. Both headstones are made of incised slate and feature shaped heads.
Local climate
Giles and Kingdom Headstones 10 Metres South of Church of St Stephen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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