Anonymous Headstone South of the Chancel of the Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Headstone.

Anonymous Headstone South of the Chancel of the Church of St Giles

WRENN ID
outer-cobalt-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Headstone
Address
Anonymous Headstone South of the Chancel of the Church of St Giles, St. Giles in the Wood
OS grid reference
SS 533 189
Coordinates
50.95116, -4.0891
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an anonymous headstone located south of the chancel of the Church of St Giles. It is probably from the 18th century and made of slate. The headstone is an upright square-headed slab, standing approximately 450 millimetres high. The top features a carving of a skull, which is flanked by a skull and crossbones. The inscription is in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. There is no date or name recorded on the headstone, only a poetic epitaph.

Local climate

Anonymous Headstone South of the Chancel of the Church of St Giles 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.

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