Netherwitton Village Cross in Garden of Font House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1986. Village cross.

Netherwitton Village Cross in Garden of Font House

WRENN ID
ruined-latch-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1986
Type
Village cross
OS grid reference
NZ 099 903
Coordinates
55.20696, -1.84515
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Netherwitton Village Cross, located in the garden of Font House, is a village cross dated 1698. It is made of stone and features a square base with bevelled upper angles that supports a shaft and head, standing 2 metres high and carved from a single block. The angles are chamfered, and the date is incised on the east side of the head. The cross is not in its original location.

Local climate

Netherwitton Village Cross in Garden of Font House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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