Westacott Headstone Circa 10 Metres South-West of South Porch of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Headstone.
Westacott Headstone Circa 10 Metres South-West of South Porch of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- WRENN ID
- swift-thatch-jet
- 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 529 268
- Coordinates
- 51.02234, -4.09844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westacott Headstone, located approximately 10 metres south-west of the south porch of the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, dates from 1841. This headstone is made of slate and features a shaped head with floriated decoration at the center and scalloped corners. It is surrounded by an encircling verse that reads, "In the morning it is green and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down dried up and withered." The inscription commemorates Elizabeth Apps Westacott, who died on 25th February 1841, and Maria Westacott, who died in 1842, each accompanied by their respective verses.
Local climate
Westacott Headstone Circa 10 Metres South-West of South Porch of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Westaway Headstone Approximately 7 Metres South of Church Porch
- 2 Wood Headstone Approximately 4 Metres South of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- 3 Slador Headstone Circa 5 Metres South of South West Corner of Nave of Church of St Thomas
- 4 Pair of Westlake Monuments Against the West Wall of the Churchyard About 15 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Bartholomew
- 5 Pair of Headstones (Chowen and Guscott) About 14 Metres North of the West Wall of the Tower of the Church of St John the Baptist
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings