Burton in Wirral Peace Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 2017. Peace cross. 6 related planning applications.
Burton in Wirral Peace Cross
- WRENN ID
- endless-passage-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 2017
- Type
- Peace cross
- Address
- Burton in Wirral Peace Cross, The Village, Junction of Vicarage Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 318 744
- Coordinates
- 53.26256, -3.02264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Burton in Wirral Peace Cross is a First World War memorial constructed in 1917. It stands on a grassed area alongside the main road through the village, at the junction of The Village and Vicarage Lane. The memorial is a stone wheel-head cross raised on a tall, four-sided plinth, which itself sits on a three-stepped base. Inscriptions are carved into the three steps on the front of the memorial. The uppermost step reads "WALK WHERE YOU WILL YOU WILL NEVER FIND / A HIGHER ROAD ABOVE / NOR SURER ROAD BELOW / THAN THE WAY OF THE HOLY CROSS". The middle step includes the inscription "GIVE PEACE IN OUR TIME / O LORD", and the bottom step bears the dedication date: "HOLY CROSS DAY SEPT 14 / AD 1917”.
Local climate
Burton in Wirral Peace Cross receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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