Paul Headstone Approximately 3 Metres South of Aisle of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Headstone.
Paul Headstone Approximately 3 Metres South of Aisle of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- slow-mortar-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 619 934
- Coordinates
- 50.72437, -3.95763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone dated 1821, located approximately 3 metres south of the aisle of the Church of St Mary in Belstone. It commemorates Elizabeth Paul and is made of slate. The headstone is a square-headed upright slab, standing about 1.2 metres high. Each top corner features small sunbursts, and the moulded border includes a fret pattern frieze. The inscription begins with the word "sacred" in Gothic capitals, followed by the rest of the text in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, which records the death of Elizabeth Paul in 1821.
Local climate
Paul Headstone Approximately 3 Metres South of Aisle of Church of St Mary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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