Stevens Headstone About 1 Metre East of East End of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1967. Headstone.
Stevens Headstone About 1 Metre East of East End of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- under-brass-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1967
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 657 313
- Coordinates
- 51.06532, -3.91799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stevens headstone, located about 1 metre east of the east end of the Church of St Peter, dates from 1837 and was created by Carder Watts of Chittlehampton. It is made of slate and features a straight-headed design with incised decoration along the borders and leaf motifs at the top corners. The verse below the inscription reads: "Daily our moral flesh decays But Christ our life shall come And his restless power shall raise Our bodies from the tomb."
Local climate
Stevens Headstone About 1 Metre East of East End of Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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