Footstone Approximately 3 Metres North of Chancel of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Footstone.
Footstone Approximately 3 Metres North of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- proud-wall-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Footstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 676 076
- Coordinates
- 50.85336, -3.88106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The footstone located approximately 3 metres north of the chancel of the Church of St. Mary is undated but likely dates from the early 19th century. It is made of slate and stands upright as a broad square-headed slab, approximately 0.4 metres high. The stone is inscribed with a poem in neat Roman serif upper and lower case letters, suggesting that it marks a child's grave. The top corners of the footstone are decorated with sunburst motifs, and there is a simple pattern of drawn-out scrolls over the poem. It appears to no longer be associated with a headstone.
Local climate
Footstone Approximately 3 Metres North of Chancel of Church of St Mary 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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