Medieval Cross Base is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 2017. Monument.
Medieval Cross Base
- WRENN ID
- dark-brass-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 2017
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SD 498 423
- Coordinates
- 53.87474, -2.76478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The medieval cross base is made of sandstone and is located in the verge next to Preston Lancaster Road (A6), at the west end of Ripon Place in Catterall. The unshaped sandstone boulder measures approximately 1 meter by 0.8 meters by 0.73 meters. It features a shallow square socket on the upper surface, which is 0.3 meters square and about 0.05 meters deep.
Local climate
Medieval Cross Base sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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