Monument commemorating The Battle Of Otterburn, known as The Percy Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. A C14 Monument. 1 related planning application.
Monument commemorating The Battle Of Otterburn, known as The Percy Cross
- WRENN ID
- standing-solder-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument commemorating The Battle Of Otterburn, known as The Percy Cross, Ny 8772 9366, on the North Side of the A696, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE19 1JF
- OS grid reference
- NY 877 936
- Coordinates
- 55.23705, -2.19476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Percy Cross is a monument commemorating the Battle of Otterburn, erected in 1777. It incorporates a 14th-century medieval cross base and an historic stone shaft.
The monument is made of dressed sandstone and features a round base consisting of three steps, followed by two square steps. On top of this base is the squared medieval cross base, from which rises an upright, faceted, and tapering stone that is approximately 2.4 meters high. There are two iron pegs attached to the south face of the monument, and most faces of the stone contain graffiti.
Local climate
Monument commemorating The Battle Of Otterburn, known as The Percy Cross receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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