Nicks Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1987. Headstone.
Nicks Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-solder-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 989 935
- Coordinates
- 50.73243, -3.43358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nicks Headstone is located approximately 5 meters south of the nave of the Church of St Michael. This headstone, dated 1799, commemorates Francis and Elizabeth Nicks. It is made of limestone and stands upright at about 0.7 meters high, featuring a head shaped like a bifurcated scroll. The front of the headstone is inscribed with Roman Serif upper and lower case lettering, noting the death of Francis Nicks in 1795 and his wife Elizabeth in 1799.
Local climate
Nicks Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Michael receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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