Stevens Headstone Approximately 9 Metres South West of South 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.
Stevens Headstone Approximately 9 Metres South West of South Corner of West Tower of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- peeling-jamb-vetch
- 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
- 51.03669, -4.18016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone located approximately 9 metres south-west of the south corner of the west tower of the Church of St Peter in Westleigh. It dates from 1829 and was made by Sanders of Westleigh. The headstone commemorates Denis Stevens, who died in 1829 at the age of 37. The inscription includes a verse that reads: "Dear wife and child forbear to weep whilest sweetly in the dust I sleep This toilsome world I've left behind Hoping a heavenly crown to find."
Local climate
Stevens Headstone Approximately 9 Metres South West of South 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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