Mary Bole Headstone Fixed to the Churchyard Retaining Wall to the North and East of the Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Headstone.
Mary Bole Headstone Fixed to the Churchyard Retaining Wall to the North and East of the Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- calm-latch-coral
- 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 432 870
- Coordinates
- 50.66173, -4.21879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone commemorating Mary Bole, who was buried in 1763. It dates from the late 18th century and is made of slate. The headstone is rectangular with a stepped top and features a verse below the inscription. It is fixed to the churchyard retaining wall located to the north and east of the Church of St John the Baptist.
Local climate
Mary Bole Headstone Fixed to the Churchyard Retaining Wall to the North and East of the Church of St John the Baptist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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