Avery Headstone Approximately 9m South of Tower of Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. Headstone.
Avery Headstone Approximately 9m South of Tower of Church of St Andrew
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 769 000
- Coordinates
- 50.7865, -3.7465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Avery headstone, approximately 9 meters south of the tower of the Church of St Andrew, dates from around 1779 and commemorates Richard Avery. Made of slate, the headstone is a low crank-headed upright slab that stands about 1.2 meters high. It features neat Roman serif upper and lower case letters, recording the burial of Richard Avery, who died in 1779, along with a sentimental epithet.
Local climate
Avery Headstone Approximately 9m South of Tower of Church of St Andrew receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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