Tanton Headstone Approximately 4 Metres South East of the Porch 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.
Tanton Headstone Approximately 4 Metres South East of the Porch of the Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- tattered-remnant-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
- 50.9512, -4.08958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tanton headstone, located approximately 4 metres south-east of the porch of the Church of St Giles, is a small headstone dated 1797 in memory of Daniel Tanton. It is an upright square-headed slab standing about 300 millimetres high. The front of the headstone features an inscription in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, which tells a tragic and cautionary story: "In memory of Daniel Tanton. By firing off a gun it burst the breach of which sunk in his head where it remained 9 weeks, on extraction of which he expired, ye 20th of January 1797, Aged 17 years."
Local climate
Tanton Headstone Approximately 4 Metres South East of the Porch 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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