Cock Headstone Approximately 8 Metres South of the Aisle of the Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Headstone.
Cock Headstone Approximately 8 Metres South of the Aisle of the Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- fallow-chancel-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 533 189
- Coordinates
- 50.95113, -4.08933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone dated 1760, located approximately 8 metres south of the aisle of the Church of St Giles in the Wood. It commemorates James Cock and is made of slate. The upright, square-headed slab stands about 450 millimetres high. The top of the headstone features a carved skull surrounded by scrolled decoration. The inscription uses Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, noting the death of James Cock, Clerk of the parish, in 1760, along with his son James. The reverse side is inscribed in memory of Hugh Cock, who died in 1823.
Local climate
Cock Headstone Approximately 8 Metres South of the Aisle of the Church of St Giles receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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- 5 Headstone Approximately 10 Metres South East of South Aisle, Church of St Peter
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