Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. Memorial cross. 3 related planning applications.
Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-buttress-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial cross
- Address
- Memorial Cross, St Peters Square, M2 3DE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 839 979
- Coordinates
- 53.47773, -2.24361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial cross, dating from around 1907, is located in St Peter's Square, Manchester. It marks the position of the former Church of St Peter, which was demolished in 1907. The cross is made of Portland stone and is designed in the Gothic style. It features a base of four hexagonal steps leading up to a hexagonal pedestal with a swept top, which is decorated with quatrefoils and brattishing. The shaft consists of slender clustered columns, each displaying an angel holding a shield halfway up its sides, and it is topped with a large Gothic cross. The memorial cross forms a group with the Cenotaph War Memorial nearby.
Local climate
Memorial Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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