Base and Shaft of Cross Immediately South West of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1979. A Medieval Cross.
Base and Shaft of Cross Immediately South West of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- lost-remnant-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1979
- Type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Base and Shaft of Cross Immediately South West of Church of All Saints, Main Street, Hoby with Rotherby
- OS grid reference
- SK 669 173
- Coordinates
- 52.7495, -1.01014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a medieval churchyard cross located immediately south-west of the Church of All Saints in Hoby. It is made of limestone and features a monolithic square base with a stump of a tapering shaft. The shaft has a square section with moulded, rounded angles.
Local climate
Base and Shaft of Cross Immediately South West of Church of All Saints receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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