Down Headstone About 5 Metres East of the Chancel of the Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Headstone.
Down Headstone About 5 Metres East of the Chancel of the Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- broken-hinge-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 457 835
- Coordinates
- 50.63119, -4.18284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century headstone located about 5 meters east of the chancel of the Church of St Andrew in Coryton. Made of slate, the headstone features a nowy head with canted corners and commemorates Elizabeth Down, who died in 1774. It is adorned with a carved relief of a pot of flowers at the top, with an inscription and verse below.
Local climate
Down Headstone About 5 Metres East of the Chancel of the Church of St Andrew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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