Row of 4 Headstones to Members of the Thorne Family Immediately to North of Lake Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. A C19 Headstones. 1 related planning application.
Row of 4 Headstones to Members of the Thorne Family Immediately to North of Lake Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- shifting-crypt-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Headstones
- Address
- Row of 4 Headstones to Members of the Thorne Family Immediately to North of Lake Methodist Chapel, Shebbear
- OS grid reference
- SS 447 093
- Coordinates
- 50.86311, -4.2074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of four headstones belonging to the Thorne family, located immediately to the north of Lake Methodist Chapel. The headstones are dated 1872, 1874, 1873, and 1883, commemorating James, Catherine, Samuel, and Mary Thorne. They are made of slate and feature epitaphs carved beneath the inscriptions. Mary was the daughter of William o'Bryan, who founded the Bible Christian Movement at Lake, Shebbear. Samuel Thorne, her husband, was a printer, and both James and Catherine Thorne were preachers.
Local climate
Row of 4 Headstones to Members of the Thorne Family Immediately to North of Lake Methodist Chapel 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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