Blanchard Headstone Approximately 6 Metres to North of Church of St. Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. A C19 Headstone.
Blanchard Headstone Approximately 6 Metres to North of Church of St. Andrew
- WRENN ID
- last-pilaster-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 490 683
- Coordinates
- 50.49539, -4.12984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone located approximately 6 metres north of the Church of St. Andrew in Buckland Monachorum. It is dated 1833 and commemorates Richard Blanchard. The headstone is made of slate and features a worn segmental top with a winged angel's head at the centre.
Local climate
Blanchard Headstone Approximately 6 Metres to North of Church of St. Andrew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 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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