Venton Headstone Approximately 10 Metres South of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Headstone.
Venton Headstone Approximately 10 Metres South of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- tenth-clay-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 465 091
- Coordinates
- 50.86113, -4.18161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Venton headstone, located approximately 10 metres south of the Church of St Mary, is a Grade II listed headstone dated 1735, commemorating Samuel Venton. The headstone features a nowy top carved with an angel's head and decorative elements along both sides.
Local climate
Venton Headstone Approximately 10 Metres South of Church of St Mary 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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