Cross Approximately 40 Yards North of Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1966. A Medieval Cross.
Cross Approximately 40 Yards North of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- grim-moulding-myrtle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Burton and Uttoxeter MP: Jacob Collier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1966
- Type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SK 111 393
- Coordinates
- 52.95183, -1.83519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a churchyard cross located approximately 40 yards north of the Church of St. Michael. It dates from the 13th century and is made of stone. The cross features four circular steps leading up to a three-tier plinth with convex mouldings. The quadrilobe shaft rises to about 20 feet high and is adorned with sunk dog-tooth ornamentation on two sides, although the head of the cross is missing.
Local climate
Cross Approximately 40 Yards North of Church of St Michael receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Churchyard Cross in Churchyard, Church of St Michael
- 2 Churchyard Cross Approximately 10 Metres North of Church of St Michael and All Angels
- 3 Churchyard Cross About 10 Yards South-East of South Porch of the Church of St Michael
- 4 Churchyard Cross in Churchyard About 3 Metres South of Porch Church of St Michael
- 5 Churchyard Cross Approximately 8 Metres South of Church of St Michael
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings