Pair of Colwill Memorials About 5 Metres East of the Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1986. A C19 Memorial.
Pair of Colwill Memorials About 5 Metres East of the Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- vacant-sandstone-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1986
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SX 332 946
- Coordinates
- 50.72755, -4.36398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of memorials made of slate, dating from the late 19th century, located about 5 meters east of the Church of St James. The northernmost memorial is signed by W. Westaway from Bradworthy. Each memorial features a rectangular headstone in front of a coffin-shaped slate ledger stone, with a smaller rectangular slate at the front of the ledger stone. The two memorials are identical in design. The northern headstone commemorates William Colwill, who died in 1868, and includes a scratch-moulded border, with his initials and date repeated on the ledger and smaller slate. The southern memorial commemorates Grace Colwill, who died in 1864. This design is typical for the area, with a group of similar memorials found at Poundstock in Cornwall.
Local climate
Pair of Colwill Memorials About 5 Metres East of the Church of St James sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- 3 Group of 2 Reset Ledger Stones and Reset Headstone of Thomas Broad, James Sloggatt and Ledgerstone to West on Bank, 1 Metre to North of North Transept of Church of St Julitta
- 4 Group of nine memorials on the W side of the path to the S porch, Church of St Cynwyd
- 5 Group of 3 Headstones Immediately East of End of Chancel of Church of St James
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