Fry Headstone C10 Metres South West of Corner of West Tower 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. Headstone.
Fry Headstone C10 Metres South West of Corner of West Tower of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- ancient-hammer-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 472 286
- Coordinates
- 51.03671, -4.18024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fry headstone, located about 10 metres south-west of the corner of the west tower of the Church of St Peter, dates from 1817. It is made of slate and features a straight-headed design with incised cable moulding along the border. The inscription commemorates John Fry of this parish, who tragically died from burns sustained in a limekiln accident on August 4, 1817, at the age of 28, leaving behind a beloved wife and three children. The headstone also notes the deaths of his wife, who remarried John Slooman and died in 1856, and John Slooman himself, who died in 1861.
Local climate
Fry Headstone C10 Metres South West of Corner of West Tower 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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