Cawsey Headstone Approximatley 3 Metres South of South West Corner of West Tower of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Headstone.
Cawsey Headstone Approximatley 3 Metres South of South West Corner of West Tower of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- last-cloister-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 591 231
- Coordinates
- 50.9901, -4.00893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cawsey headstone, located approximately 3 metres south of the south-west corner of the west tower of the Church of St Mary, dates from 1835. It is made of slate and features a shaped head with elaborate decoration, including scalloped motifs at the corners and a star motif flanking a central urn. The headstone bears the verse "Reader Prepare to meet thy God" and "Behold the Lord Taketh away who can hinder him who whill say unto him what doest thou?" It is inscribed to Robert Cawsey, who died in 1835, and his wife, who died in 1842.
Local climate
Cawsey Headstone Approximatley 3 Metres South of South West Corner of West Tower of Church of St Mary receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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