Butter Cross at the Old Market Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. Cross.
Butter Cross at the Old Market Hall
- WRENN ID
- swift-wattle-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- Cross
- Address
- Butter Cross at the Old Market Hall, Queen Street, Bingley
- OS grid reference
- SE 106 390
- Coordinates
- 53.84796, -1.83911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Butter Cross at the Old Market Hall is a Grade II listed structure located in Bingley. It consists of a cross and base that are set within a square open-sided structure. The cross and base are of uncertain date but are possibly from the 13th century, linked to a market charter from 1212. The surrounding structure was built around 1754 by Thomas Lister. It is made of ashlar stone with a stone slate roof. The square base features four steps and a base for a tall shaft of the cross, which extends through the apex of the roof. The square structure has square Doric corner columns on stylobates that support a pyramidal roof. The Butter Cross was re-erected on its current site around 1984.
Local climate
Butter Cross at the Old Market Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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