Petrock Headstone Approximately 10m 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.
Petrock Headstone Approximately 10m South of Tower of Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- half-pier-linden
- 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
- 50.78649, -3.74654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This headstone, located approximately 10 meters south of the tower of the Church of St Andrew, dates from around 1686 and commemorates Philip Petrock. Made of purple mudstone, the headstone is a roughly round-headed upright slab that stands about 0.5 meters high. It features an inscription in neat bold capitals, which records the burial of Philip Petrock, who died in 1686, and includes the phonetic dialect spelling of "died" as "deyed."
Local climate
Petrock Headstone Approximately 10m 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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