Tranmere Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Monument.
Tranmere Cross
- WRENN ID
- plain-window-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Tranmere Cross, Victoria Park
- OS grid reference
- SJ 319 869
- Coordinates
- 53.37468, -3.02481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tranmere Cross is a fragment of a cross, likely dating from the 15th century. It is made of stone and features a worn stepped and chamfered base leading to a chamfered shaft. The cross is raised on three later steps and was erected at its current location in 1937.
Local climate
Tranmere Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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