Group of 4 Headstones 10 Metres South West 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. A Georgian Group of headstones.
Group of 4 Headstones 10 Metres South West of Church of St Stephen
- WRENN ID
- riven-barrel-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1993
- Type
- Group of headstones
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- SX 324 856
- Coordinates
- 50.64665, -4.37108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of four headstones from the 18th century located 10 meters southwest of the Church of St Stephen in Launceston. The headstones are made of slate and feature shaped heads. The headstone on the left, which is to Henry Bath, marks his death in 1712. The other two headstones are for Mary, who died in 1721 at the age of 22, and Margaret, who died in 1720 at the age of 10, and is noted as the daughter of Robert Hicks.
Local climate
Group of 4 Headstones 10 Metres South West 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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