Pair of Gravestones at Head and Feet of Stanbury Children Grave Circa 5 Metres South of East End of Church of St John Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Gravestone.
Pair of Gravestones at Head and Feet of Stanbury Children Grave Circa 5 Metres South of East End of Church of St John Baptist
- WRENN ID
- quartered-hearth-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Gravestone
- Address
- Pair of Gravestones at Head and Feet of Stanbury Children Grave Circa 5 Metres South of East End of Church of St John Baptist, EX39 4LU
- OS grid reference
- SS 479 309
- Coordinates
- 51.05798, -4.17056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of gravestones dating from 1690, located at the head and feet of the Stanbury children's grave, approximately 5 metres south of the east end of the Church of St John Baptist in Instow. The gravestones are made of stone and feature double segmental heads. The headstone includes incised skulls and an hourglass, with inscriptions on the left and right dedicated to Agnes and George Stanbury, the daughter and son of Richard Stanbury, who both died on 1st March 1690 at the ages of 15 and 11. The stone at the foot of the grave has a weathered inscription that records their deaths from smallpox.
Local climate
Pair of Gravestones at Head and Feet of Stanbury Children Grave Circa 5 Metres South of East End of Church of St John Baptist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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