Cross Base in St Michael's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. Cross base.
Cross Base in St Michael's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- seventh-plinth-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- Cross base
- Address
- Cross Base in St Michael's Churchyard, Main Road, Bolton-Le-Sands
- OS grid reference
- SD 483 677
- Coordinates
- 54.10266, -2.7916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cross base in St. Michael's Churchyard is a historical structure made of sandstone, with an uncertain date of origin. It features a square base on plan, which is raised on two steps. At the top, there is a square block with rounded sides that contains a socket, currently holding a 20th-century cross.
Local climate
Cross Base in St Michael's Churchyard 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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