Metherel Headstone About 4 Metres East 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. Headstone.
Metherel Headstone About 4 Metres East of the Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- heavy-spire-river
- 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
- 50.69306, -4.33215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone located about 4 meters east of the Church of St Giles, dating from the late 18th century. It was engraved by D. Sandercock from North Tamerton and is made of slate. The headstone features a segmental head that commemorates Mary Metherel, who died in 1795, along with her infant son. At the top, there is a clock set within a carved aedicule, flanked by roundels that depict a kneeling figure and an angel. The lettering is well-executed, and the verse below the inscription includes the lines: "The child being gone the Mother could not stay/But humbly wishd for Death and slept away."
Local climate
Metherel Headstone About 4 Metres East 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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