Dart Headstone Approximately 2 Metres South of South Aisle of Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Headstone.
Dart Headstone Approximately 2 Metres South of South Aisle of Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- calm-span-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 698 076
- Coordinates
- 50.85358, -3.85035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone located approximately 2 meters south of the south aisle of the Church of St Matthew. It dates from around 1846 and commemorates William Dart and his family, with the stone signed by Howell. The headstone is made of slate and features an upright square-headed slab that stands about 1.1 meters high. It has a three-line frame surrounding the inscription, which is written in upper and lower case Roman serif letters. The inscription records the deaths of William Dart in 1798, his son William in 1837, and his wife Mary in 1846.
Local climate
Dart Headstone Approximately 2 Metres South of South Aisle of Church of St Matthew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Anonymous Headstone Approximately 15 Metres North of Tower of Former Church of St Mary
- 2 Wright Headstone About 7 Metres South of the Stair Turret Buttress on the Church of St Mary and St Martin
- 3 Scattered Group of 4 C18 Headstones Between 6-18 Metres East of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary the Virgin
- 4 Matthews Headstone at Churchyard of St Botolph
- 5 Wills Headstone Circa 5m South of Church of St Mary
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings