Spettigue Headstone About 6 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1986. A C18 Headstone.
Spettigue Headstone About 6 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- sheer-transept-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1986
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 353 907
- Coordinates
- 50.69301, -4.33216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Spettigue headstone, located about 6 meters south of the chancel of the Church of St Giles, is a late 18th-century slate headstone. It features a round-headed design and commemorates Joseph Spettigue, who died in 1795, along with other members of the Spettigue family. There is a verse inscribed below the main inscription.
Local climate
Spettigue Headstone About 6 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Giles 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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