Unidentified Head Stone 10 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Osmund is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1986. A C18 Headstone.
Unidentified Head Stone 10 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Osmund
- WRENN ID
- veiled-ledge-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1986
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SY 724 829
- Coordinates
- 50.6458, -2.3917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century headstone located 10 metres west of the tower of the Church of St Osmund in Osmington. It is made of stone and features a panel with an unidentified inscription. At the top of the headstone, two putti are depicted in relief, jointly holding a crown above a figure representing the general resurrection.
Local climate
Unidentified Head Stone 10 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Osmund receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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