Downing Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. Headstone.
Downing Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of Church of Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- burning-baluster-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 384 106
- Coordinates
- 50.87315, -4.29755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone made of slate, located approximately 5 metres south of the Church of Holy Trinity in Milton Damerel. It commemorates William Downing, who died in 1784. The headstone features two parallel arches at the top, each adorned with carved decoration along the edges.
Local climate
Downing Headstone Approximately 5 Metres South of Church of Holy Trinity sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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