Pleace Headstone Approximately 2.5 Metres North West of Tower of Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Headstone.
Pleace Headstone Approximately 2.5 Metres North West of Tower of Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- lunar-solder-fern
- 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
- 50.69382, -4.07452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This headstone, dated 1783, commemorates Joseph Pleace and is located approximately 2.5 metres north-west of the tower of the Church of St Thomas in Sourton. It is made of slate and features a straight head with scrolled corners. The headstone has a decorative carved border and includes a winged angel's head at the top. Below the inscription, there is a rhyming epitaph presented in upper and lower case lettering with serifs.
Local climate
Pleace Headstone Approximately 2.5 Metres North West of Tower 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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