Dennis Headstone Circa 5 Metres South of South East Corner of South Porch of Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Headstone.
Dennis Headstone Circa 5 Metres South of South East Corner of South Porch of Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- tall-tin-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 622 438
- Coordinates
- 51.17697, -3.97161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone located about 5 metres south of the southeast corner of the south porch of the Church of St. Thomas in Kentisbury. It dates from 1820 and is made of slate. The headstone features a shouldered nowy head and has elaborate incised decoration, including a verse around the head. There is a figure of an angel blowing a trumpet, with open books on each side. The book on the left is inscribed with the words "Life how short," while the book on the right reads "Eternity how long." The headstone commemorates James Lovering Dennis, who died in 1820.
Local climate
Dennis Headstone Circa 5 Metres South of South East Corner of South Porch of Church of St Thomas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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