Brook Headstone Approximately 1.5 Metres to South of Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Headstone.
Brook Headstone Approximately 1.5 Metres to South of Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- north-granite-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 535 902
- Coordinates
- 50.69374, -4.07422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This headstone, dated 1785, is located approximately 1.5 metres to the south of the Church of St Thomas in Sourton. It commemorates John Brook and is made of slate. The headstone features a shaped top, which is broken off, with scrolled sides and a winged angel's head carved at the top. Below the inscription, there is a rhyming epitaph presented in upper and lower case lettering with serifs.
Local climate
Brook Headstone Approximately 1.5 Metres to South of Church of St Thomas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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