Covell Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Commemorative cross.
Covell Cross
- WRENN ID
- wild-panel-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Commemorative cross
- Address
- Covell Cross, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 474 618
- Coordinates
- 54.05011, -2.80343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Covell Cross is a commemorative cross located on Church Street in Lancaster, built in 1903 by the architectural firm Austin and Paley to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. It is made of sandstone ashlar and features a tapering square shaft that stands on an octagonal plinth, which is set on an octagonal stepped base. The plinth has sunk panels on each face: the south side displays a shield bearing the Royal coat-of-arms, the north side shows the arms of the Borough of Lancaster, the west side features the Lancashire rose, and the east side contains an explanatory inscription. The shaft has a panelled base that rises in the center, with half-round mouldings along the edges and arabesque panels on the east and west faces. The cross-head is adorned with carved panels of leaves on the east and west sides, and it has rounded ends to the arms with concave quadrants between them.
Local climate
Covell Cross sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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