Melhuish Headstone Immediately South of Porch of Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Headstone.
Melhuish Headstone Immediately South of Porch of Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- muffled-gargoyle-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- Address
- Melhuish Headstone Immediately South of Porch of Church of St Mary the Virgin, Washfield
- OS grid reference
- SS 935 153
- Coordinates
- 50.92816, -3.51637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Melhuish headstone, located immediately south of the porch of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, is a late 18th-century stone headstone. It features a square head and commemorates John Melhuish, who died in 1787, along with other members of the family.
Local climate
Melhuish Headstone Immediately South of Porch of Church of St Mary the Virgin receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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