May Headstone Approximately 25m South of West End of Nave of Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. Headstone.
May Headstone Approximately 25m South of West End of Nave of Church of St Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- broken-hall-tide
- 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 727 006
- Coordinates
- 50.79126, -3.80709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Headstone is located approximately 25 meters south of the west end of the nave of the Church of St Bartholomew. This headstone, dated 1743, commemorates Margaret May. It is made of slate and features a round-headed upright slab that stands about 1.3 meters high. The headstone has a scrollwork border around its edge and an inscribed cherub at the top. The inscription, which uses both upper and lower case letters, notes the burial of Margaret May, the daughter of Edward and Catherine May.
Local climate
May Headstone Approximately 25m South of West End of Nave of Church of St Bartholomew receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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