Former Font Base Approximately 7 Metres to South East of Trevilla is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Font base.

Former Font Base Approximately 7 Metres to South East of Trevilla

WRENN ID
south-pedestal-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Font base
OS grid reference
SS 546 159
Coordinates
50.92489, -4.06913
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a former font base, now serving as a garden ornament, located approximately 7 metres southeast of Trevilla. It likely dates from the 14th or 15th century and is made of granite. The structure features a square base and a large octagonal socket with a cavetto-moulded top and spurs at the corners. This font base probably originated from nearby Woolleigh Barton, which has a chapel from the same period. It was likely relocated to its current position in the late 19th or early 20th century, and there is a possibility that the rest of the font still exists.

Local climate

Former Font Base Approximately 7 Metres to South East of Trevilla sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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