Stump Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Cross socket.
Stump Cross
- WRENN ID
- silver-corbel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Cross socket
- Address
- Stump Cross, Ferrybridge Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 469 234
- Coordinates
- 53.70542, -1.29036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stump Cross is a medieval wayside cross, possibly dating from the 12th century, located on Ferrybridge Road in Pontefract. It is made of grey ashlar limestone and has a rectangular plan measuring approximately 600 millimetres by 500 millimetres and about 350 millimetres high. The top side features a large square socket, and each side has three round-topped recessed panels that create an arcade, with the spacing closer on the narrower sides.
The stone is enclosed by a railing that has a canted ashlar coping supporting early 20th-century circular wrought-iron bars, which are bent outwards at the top and include mid and top rails, along with spear finials on the corner standards. Inside the enclosure, a tree and saplings are growing. The cross base is situated on the boundary of the Borough of Pontefract, at the junction of an ancient boundary lane and a main road.
In Pontefract Museum, there are two fragments of the cross shaft, one that was formerly in Darrington Church and another from a barn at Bubwith Farm; one fragment depicts a figure on a horse, while the other shows a seated figure.
Local climate
Stump Cross receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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