The Village Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. Monument. 1 related planning application.
The Village Cross
- WRENN ID
- calm-sandstone-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- The Village Cross, the Green, Meriden, CV7 7LN
- OS grid reference
- SP 239 822
- Coordinates
- 52.43795, -1.64963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Cross is a medieval structure located on The Green in Meriden. It features a stepped octagonal plinth with three worn stone steps that support a square base stone, which is broached to an octagonal top. Above this is a tapering octagonal shaft. The cross is popularly believed to mark the center of England.
Local climate
The Village Cross receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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