Gibbings Headstone Approximately 1 Metre East of Porch 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.
Gibbings Headstone Approximately 1 Metre East of Porch of Church of St Matthew
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- 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, -3.85039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gibbings headstone, located approximately 1 metre east of the porch of the Church of St Matthew, is a memorial dated 1818 in memory of Richard Gibbings. The headstone is made of slate and features an upright slab that stands about 1.2 metres high, with a flat top and shaped corners. The inscription is framed with concave upper corners and is written in both upper and lower case Roman serif letters, commemorating the death of Richard Gibbings in 1818.
Local climate
Gibbings Headstone Approximately 1 Metre East of Porch 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.
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