Row of 3 Head and Footstones Approximately 8 Metres East of Church is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Grave markers.
Row of 3 Head and Footstones Approximately 8 Metres East of Church
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-hearth-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Grave markers
- OS grid reference
- SS 451 155
- Coordinates
- 50.91879, -4.20463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of three head and footstones located approximately 8 meters east of the church in Langtree. The stones are dated 1798, 1788, and 1782 and commemorate members of the Brent family. They are made of slate. The central headstone features a carved arch with columns on either side and a winged angel's head in the spandrels. The right-hand headstone is similar but includes carved roundels in the spandrels. The footstones bear epitaphs, with the central footstone displaying a carved winged hourglass, and the right-hand footstone featuring a carved arch.
Local climate
Row of 3 Head and Footstones Approximately 8 Metres East of Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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