Church of St Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Church.
Church of St Cross
- WRENN ID
- frozen-keystone-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Cross, Stretton Road, Appleton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 637 838
- Coordinates
- 53.35034, -2.5456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Cross is a church built in 1886 by Edmund Kirby, funded by Piers Egerton Warburton of Arley. It is constructed from red sandstone and features a red tile roof, with an oak-framed north porch set on a sandstone plinth. The church has a cruciform shape, with a two-stage tower above the crossing, low hip-roofed transepts, a three-window aisleless nave, and a one-window chancel. A baptistry, designed as a canted bay window, projects from the west end. Notable windows include a rose window above the baptistry, a geometrical east window, and straight-headed reticulated windows on the north and south sides of the nave and chancel.
Inside, the nave and chancel have a cradle roof, and the crossing arches feature continuous mouldings without capitals. An organ is located in the north transept, and the east window contains glass from 1870. There is also a stone pulpit. Pevsner and Hubbard remarked that the church is "better than one expects him [Edmund Kirby] to be."
Local climate
Church of St Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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