Willcock Headstone Approximately 4 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Headstone.
Willcock Headstone Approximately 4 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- quiet-turret-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 697 967
- Coordinates
- 50.75528, -3.84794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone dated 1788, located approximately 4 metres south of the nave of the Church of St Michael in Spreyton. It commemorates John Willcock. The headstone is made of granite and features an upright, round-headed slab that stands about 500 millimetres high. The front of the slab has a simple incised frame and is inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, noting the death of John Willcock in 1788.
Local climate
Willcock Headstone Approximately 4 Metres South of Nave of Church of St Michael receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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