Standing Cross with Sundial in St Thomas Becket Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. Standing cross with sundial.
Standing Cross with Sundial in St Thomas Becket Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- south-minaret-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Standing cross with sundial
- Address
- Standing Cross with Sundial in St Thomas Becket Churchyard, Market Place, Chapel-En-Le-Frith
- OS grid reference
- SK 057 808
- Coordinates
- 53.32418, -1.91501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The standing cross with sundial in the churchyard of St Thomas Becket is an early post-Conquest structure, likely from the 11th century. The original cross head is missing and has been replaced by a sundial from the 18th or 19th century. The cross is made of red sandstone and features a circular sandstone base. It has a rectangular, stepped, and chamfered stone pier that stands approximately 1.2 meters high. The sundial itself has a square copper dial with a scroll triangular indicator.
Local climate
Standing Cross with Sundial in St Thomas Becket Churchyard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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