Monument to William Shaplin Mawl Adjacent to South Door of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. Monument.
Monument to William Shaplin Mawl Adjacent to South Door of Church of All Saints
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1989
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SS 309 251
- Coordinates
- 51.00062, -4.41035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a chest tomb dedicated to William Shaplin Mawl, located adjacent to the south door of the Church of All Saints. It dates from 1625 and is made of stone. The tomb is an oblong chest with rubble sides that have been recently repointed and possibly rebuilt. It features a dressed stone slab top with a high-quality incised inscription that reads: "William Shaplin Mawl of Barnstaple who deceased 26 of Octob 1625."
Local climate
Monument to William Shaplin Mawl Adjacent to South Door of Church of All Saints sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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