Pair of Gravestones to Head and Foot of Grave of Rebekah Blight Approximately 2 Metres South East of South East Chancel Corner of Church of St Peter 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 to Head and Foot of Grave of Rebekah Blight Approximately 2 Metres South East of South East Chancel Corner of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- slow-threshold-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Gravestone
- OS grid reference
- SS 472 286
- Coordinates
- 51.03663, -4.1797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of gravestones marking the head and foot of the grave of Rebekah Blight, located approximately 2 metres south-east of the south-east corner of the chancel at the Church of St Peter. The gravestones date from 1772 and are made of slate. The headstone features shaped heads and includes a depiction of winged angels above the inscription, which commemorates the death of Rebekah, the daughter of Richard and Ann Blight, who died in 1722 at the age of 13. The stone at the foot of the grave displays an hourglass flanked by crossed bones, with an inscription that reads: "my peacefull grave shall keep my Bons till that sweet day that I a wake from my Long Sleep And leve my bead of Clay."
Local climate
Pair of Gravestones to Head and Foot of Grave of Rebekah Blight Approximately 2 Metres South East of South East Chancel Corner of Church of St Peter receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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