Way Headstone About 10 Metres South West of the Tower and the Church of the Holy Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Headstone.
Way Headstone About 10 Metres South West of the Tower and the Church of the Holy Cross
- WRENN ID
- fossil-ledge-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 874 121
- Coordinates
- 50.89783, -3.60247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This headstone, located about 10 meters southwest of the tower and the Church of the Holy Cross, dates from the late 18th century. It is made of stone, with the front dressed and the rear rough-hewn. The headstone features a segmental shape with shouldered edges and concave corners. It commemorates William Way, who died in 1781, and includes a carved urn at the top.
Local climate
Way Headstone About 10 Metres South West of the Tower and the Church of the Holy Cross receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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