The High Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. A Renaissance Column.
The High Cross
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pavement-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Column
- Period
- Renaissance
- Address
- The High Cross, Jubilee Square, City of Leicester, LE1 5YP
- OS grid reference
- SK 583 045
- Coordinates
- 52.63513, -1.13867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The High Cross is a 16th-century Tuscan column made of limestone, featuring a 21st-century ball finial and a gilded cross. It stands on a three-stepped base with a plinth. At the top of the column, the ball finial supports a gilded Latin cross pattée.
Local climate
The High Cross receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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