Pair of Headstones About 5 Metres South West of the Tower of the Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1986. Headstones.
Pair of Headstones About 5 Metres South West of the Tower of the Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- dusk-bracket-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1986
- Type
- Headstones
- OS grid reference
- SX 348 992
- Coordinates
- 50.76926, -4.34357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of headstones located about 5 meters south-west of the tower of the Church of St Leonard. The headstones date from the early 18th century and early 19th century and are made of slate. The southern headstone is rectangular and commemorates Francis Northey, who "departed this transitory Life by a most grievous scald" in 1807. It features a scratch moulded border and includes a personal two-stanza verse below the inscription. The northern headstone has a stepped head and commemorates Grace Oliver, who died in 1744, along with other members of the Oliver family. It is adorned with a stylized skull and leaf trails carved at the top.
Local climate
Pair of Headstones About 5 Metres South West of the Tower of the Church of St Leonard 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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