Village Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Knowsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1981. Cross.

Village Cross

WRENN ID
unlit-flagstone-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Knowsley
Constituency
Knowsley MP: Anneliese Midgley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 August 1981
Type
Cross
Address
Village Cross, Blue Bell Lane
OS grid reference
SJ 442 911
Coordinates
53.41402, -2.84064
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Village Cross in Huyton, located on the west side of Blue Bell Lane, was built in 1897 to replace an earlier cross from 1820 designed by Rickman. It is made of stone and features five octagonal steps leading up to a base adorned with quatrefoil panels. The cross has a tapering octagonal shaft topped with a cornice. The square top includes tracery panels with crocketed gables and a niche that houses a figure of St. Michael on the east side. A small spire completes the structure.

Local climate

Village 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 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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