Walter Headstone About 15m North East of the North East Corner of the Chancel of the Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1986. A C19 Headstone.
Walter Headstone About 15m North East of the North East Corner of the Chancel of the Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cupola-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1986
- Type
- Headstone
- Address
- Walter Headstone About 15m North East of the North East Corner of the Chancel of the Church of St Nicholas, Broadwoodwidger
- OS grid reference
- SX 411 891
- Coordinates
- 50.68071, -4.24994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Walter headstone, located about 15 meters northeast of the northeast corner of the chancel of the Church of St Nicholas, is a late 19th-century memorial. It is made of slate and features a segmental head. The headstone commemorates James Walter, who died in 1796. The back of the headstone is signed "cut by W Deacon, Milton Abbot." It includes a monogram at the top and a verse below the inscription, which has rustic spelling and punctuation: "When Christ shall come to rise the dead/And soul; to body join:/Thousands will wish, there time on earth;/Had been so short as mine."
Local climate
Walter Headstone About 15m North East of the North East Corner of the Chancel of the Church of St Nicholas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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